“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.”
“This revolution was not made by one class; it is an important fact. It was not done by one class, it was done by the youth; at least it was the youth that began the revolution and then the people gradually joined it; and after the youth, it was the peasants, these men who live off the land, away from the cities, because these were the first to come”.
“There is nothing like the sense of dignity and honor. There is nothing like the sense of patriotism and the pride of men and women of a revolutionary people.”
"Even though it hurts our modesty, it is a bitter duty to say that our blockaded, threatened and slandered country has shown that Latin American peoples can live without either violence or drugs. It can even live, and that’s what has happened for more than half a century, without relations with the United States. That is something we haven’t shown; they have. "
“We need to awaken the faith of the peoples, and the faith of the peoples is not awakened with promises, the faith of the peoples is not awakened with theories, the faith of the peoples is not awakened with rhetoric; the faith of the peoples is awakened with facts, the faith of the peoples is awakened with realities, the faith of the peoples is awakened with true solutions."