Citas

“Those virtues with which our people can resolutely face up any situation, that patriotic feeling, that civic awareness, that political maturity, that revolutionary intelligence which opens up the minds of  all of our citizens to the great truths and unites the people, is the path we will never steer away from.”
References to the original: Speech given during the lunch hosted by the members of the Students Directorate of 1930 at Río Cristal, June 23, 1960
“ […] What has Cuba done to be condemned?  What have the Cuban people done to merit the Declaration of Costa Rica?  Our people have done nothing but break the chains! Our people have done nothing else but fighting for a better future, without hurting any other people or taking anything away from any other people.”
References to the original: Meeting with the people of Cuba, at a National General Assembly, the First Declaration of Havana, which condemns the Declaration of San Jose de Costa Rica, was approved, September 2, 1960

“The US people supported the Cuban struggle. That Joint Resolution was a US Congress law which declared war on Spain. But such an illusion ended up in great deceit”. 

References to the original: Speech at the UN Headquarters, US, on September 26, 1960

“The world did not have many reasons to know Cuba existed. To many, it was something like an apprendix of the United States. Even, to many citizens of this country, Cuba was a US colony. It did not appear as such in the maps, where our color was different from the United States´. But in actual fact it was”.

References to the original: Speech at the UN Headquarters, US, on September 26, 1960

“Cuba´s ethnic and cultural roots are very different and such roots took hold for centuries”.

References to the original: Speech at the UN Headquarters, US, on September 26, 1960

“Cuba was the last country in the Americas to get rid of Spanish colonialism, of the Spanish colonial yoke, and this is said with no animosity toward His Excelllency the representative of the Spanish government. And, as Cuba was the last to get free, it had to fight the hardest”.

References to the original: Speech at the UN Headquarters, US, on September 26, 1960

“The Cubans who had fought for our independence, those who were bleeding and dying then, came to believe in good faith that US Congress Joint Resolution of April 20, 1898 stating Cuba was and had the right to be free and independent”.

References to the original: Speech at the UN Headquarters, US, on September 26, 1960