“[…] you should never have regrets over heroism; you should never have regrets over justice; you should never have regrets over courage and bravery, because precisely the courageous and the resolute people, the brave people have done the most beautiful things in history.”
“We remember what Karl Marx said: he said that the bourgeoisie had come into this world dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood -- the blood of the workers, the blood of the peasants, the blood of the youth, the blood of the revolutionary”.
“But it is a historical truth, an inexorable law of history, that all peoples exploited by imperialism will free themselves from imperialism, and that the peoples of Latin America will also free themselves, just as those in Asia who are yet to free themselves will also be free and those remaining in Africa to be freed as well.”
“How useful it is to rummage through our peoples’ extraordinary history! So many things to be learned, so many lessons, so many examples! What a never-ending source of heroism! Because there have never been a people on this continent that have fought more for their freedom than the Cuban people!”
“The importance of the Bay of Pigs does not lie in the size of the battle, or the number of combatants, or the heroic events which took place there; the enormous historical importance of the Bay of Pigs is not what happened but what didn’t happen thanks to the Bay of Pigs!”
“[…] we must remember that on this day, on an afternoon such as this, the socialist nature of the Revolution was proclaimed. That, we could say, was the first great salvo fired in response to the aggression.”
"Therefore we may say that the Vietnamese did not fight just for themselves: they fought for all the peoples of the world! They fought for the cause of freedom for humankind! They fought for the cause of socialism and communism! The men who died over there, also died for us. And humanity will eternally thank Vietnam for those services!"
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]from the knowledge we have of the history of humankind and of the history of revolutions, there has been no revolution more human or transparent than the Cuban Revolution. "Our enemies have not been able to destroy that truth despite their giant and immense publicity apparatus."
“[…]the struggle for peace also means the struggle for the independence of the peoples, it means the struggle for the freedom of the colonies, it means the struggle for the economic development of the poorest countries, it means the struggle to liberate the peoples from imperialist exploitation and domination.”
“Our revolution is one of these events which will make history and the people who are bringing about the revolution and the generation which is undertaking the revolution will be talked about in the future with admiration by the coming generations in Cuba, America and the entire world”