Citas

Which will be their basic weapons? Ideas will be, and consciousness. Who will sow them, cultivate them and make them invincible? You will. Is it a utopia, just one more dream among so many others? No, because it is objectively inevitable and there is no alternative to it. It has been dreamed of before, only perhaps too early. As the most visionary of the sons of this island, Jose Marti, said: "Today’s dreams will be tomorrow’s realities".

References to the original: Remarks at the closing session of the international economists conference, january 22, 1999
“There, in Dos Rios, José Martí, the Apostle of Independence shed his blood. He was a genius of ideas, and of the noblest ideas that can be imagined, our homeland’s national hero whose ideas inspired the Centennial Generation and today inspires and will increasingly inspire our entire people.”
References to the original: Open Tribunal of the Revolution, held in Buey Arriba, Granma province, March 30, 2002

"The day on which he fell, May 19, 1895, Martí was sacrificing his own life for the right to life of all the inhabitants of the planet".

References to the original: Speech given at the closing of the International Conference for World Balance, held in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of our National Hero, José Martí, January 29, 2003

“If we have succeeded in some way in honoring the hero whose fruitful birth we are commemorating today, it is by having demonstrated that a small and poor country, despite inevitable errors committed in its learning process, can do much with very little. The Cuban people’s greatest monument to his memory is having built and defended this trench, so that no one could overpower with that additional strength our lands of the Americas and the world”.

References to the original: International Conference for World Balance, held in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of our National Hero, José Martí, January 29, 2003