Citas

“Cuba, the country that has suffered the most and the longest from terrorist actions, the one whose people are not afraid of anything because there is no threat or power in the world that can intimidate it, with a high morale Cuba claims that it is opposed to terrorism and opposed to war.”

References to the original: Speech by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, September 22, 2001

"The Cuban Adjustment Act will become a major irrefutable moral argument. There will always be people everywhere willing to risk their lives to emigrate illegally, but there will never be any justification to encourage them to do it. That is a crime against humanity and an expression of hateful contempt for human life".

References to the original: Speech at the Anti-Imperialist Tribunal "José Martí", November 27, 2001

“From a political point of view, we are living in an era when there are and there will be weapons much more powerful that any produced through technology, namely: the weapons of morality, reason and ideas; with them no country is weak but without them no nation is powerful”.

References to the original: Answer the President of the Republic of Cuba to the statements of United States government on biological weapons, May 10, 2002

“If I were to look for a word that was synonymous with austerity, integrity, a spirit of sacrifice and ethics, that word would be Che”.

References to the original: Speech given at the ceremony in homage to the births of Maceo and Che in el Cacahual, Havana, June 15, 2002

“Revolutionary Cubans, in the thick of the Battle of Ideas we are waging and embroiled in the arduous and heroic defence of our Homeland, the Revolution and Socialism, on a day like today we are rendering a special tribute to our two great heroes, with a firm, unshakeable decision: We shall all be like Maceo and Che”

References to the original: Speech given at the ceremony in homage to the births of Maceo and Che in el Cacahual, Havana, June 15, 2002

“They were born 83 years apart. The first was already a legendary figure when the second entered the world. If one of them proclaimed that whoever tried to take possession of Cuba would have to gather up the dust of its soil soaked in blood, if he did not perish in the struggle, the other soaked Bolivian soil with his blood trying to prevent the empire from taking over America”.

References to the original: Speech given at the ceremony in homage to the births of Maceo and Che in el Cacahual, Havana, June 15, 2002

“When I speak of internal threats, I am only thinking about social or moral dangers than could affect our people and jeopardize their safety, education or health. It is well known how hard we have fought against the habit of smoking, and how it has been greatly reduced. We are similarly fighting against alcohol abuse, or the unfortunate practice of its consumption during pregnancy, which can lead to the birth of children with mental retardation or other serious physical disabilities”.

References to the original: Speech on the current world crisis, on the occasion of his inauguration as President of the Republic of Cuba, Havana, March 6, 2003