Citas

“The future of our homeland must by necessity be a future of men of science, it must be a future of thinking men, because that is precisely what we are sowing the most;[…]”

References to the original: Speech given at the ceremony held by the Speleological Society of Cuba at the Academy of the Sciences, January 15, 1960
“And not only shall we know how to stand up to any aggression; we shall know how to triumph over any aggression; and we shall have no choice  other than the one with which we started our revolutionary struggle: freedom  or death.  But now, freedom means something else:  freedom  means homeland.  And our choice shall be: Homeland or Death.”
References to the original: Speech delivered at the funeral for the victims of the “La Coubre” explosion, at the ‘Colón’ Cemetery, March 5, 1960

"We will know how to resist any aggression, but that we will know how to overcome any aggression, and that again we would have no other dilemma than that with which we began the revolutionary struggle: that of freedom or death".

References to the original: Speech delivered by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz during the funeral rites honoring the victims from the explosion of La Coubre Vessel, held in Colon cemetery on the 5th day of March 1960
“…work, organize and put into action the spirit of creation, the enthusiasm of Cuban women, so that Cuban women, in this stage of the revolutions, will see to the disappearance of the last shred of discrimination;  and so that Cuban women, because of their virtues and merits, will take the place corresponding them in the country’s history.”
References to the original: The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) is constituted, thus taking a new step in the direction of unity of all the people around the revolutionary directorship, August 23, 1960
“Cubans haven’t wanted anything other than that the determinations guiding their conduct should be theirs; that theirs and theirs alone should be the lone star that flutters in our homeland!  That the laws should be theirs; that their natural wealth should be theirs; that their democratic and revolutionary institutions should be theirs.”
References to the original: Meeting with the people of Cuba in the National General Assembly, the First Havana Declaration is passed. September 2, 1960

"This is the Revolution, always looking for the best of the country, and with the best of the country preparing the best future for all Cubans. And so we go marching on with what we have. What we have is not perfect, we have received the inheritance of the past, an inheritance, in many ways negative, from the past".

References to the original: SPEECH DELIVERED BY COMMANDER IN CHIEF FIDEL CASTRO RUZ AT THE UNIVERSITY STAIRCASE, NOVEMBER 27, 1960

“It’s the duty of the people, it’s the duty of the Revolution, it’s the duty of the homeland, to make way for intelligence, to open chances for intelligence, to make way for vocation, to make way for virtue and merit!”.

References to the original: Speech at the graduation ceremony of the Voluntary Teachers, held in the Revolutionary CTC Theater, January 23, 1961