“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;[…]”
Quotes
“Revolutions are not made at the whim of men; nobody could say that the whim of a group of men could lead people towards a revolution. Revolutions are made by necessities and people are not guilty for why revolutions happen; the people make revolutions forced by necessities, even though those of us involved in making them do so with great pleasure”.
“The revolutionary are neither pessimistic, nor skeptical. Skeptical has to be the reactionary and the imperialist, because they see that everything is changing against; and the revolutionary see that everything is changing in favor.”
“Without clear conceptions and ideas a revolution is not possible even when the subjective conditions exist. Furthermore; without a strong, firm, resolved and clever fight; to which a huge dose of audacity should be added, a revolution is not possible.”
"Let selfishness and hegemonism cease, as well as callousness, recklessness and deceit. Tomorrow it will be too late to do what should have been done a long time ago".
“We have pooled the essence of our thinkers’ best ideas with that of foreign thinkers, which has helped to strengthen and develop our present ideals.”
“(…) is not the time to be thinking about our own nations; we must think in terms of the Latin American and Caribbean nation which is also represented here by OCLAE”.
“We live by our ideals, our principles, and our ethics. That has been our life, and that is the life ”.
“Not only is knowledge a necessity for thinking and culture but it is also a revolutionary necessity that all peoples should know about the history of the world.”
“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”.
"In Cuba we have never cultivated hatred against the American people or blamed them for the aggressions perpetrated by the governments of that country. That would have run contrary to our political doctrines and our internationalist conscience, both well-proven throughout many years, and increasingly rooted in our ideas."
“Cuba is increasingly becoming a country with not only great intellectual and artistic talents but also with many educators, scientists and hundreds of thousands of people capable of producing wealth with their learned minds. This is but a proof of what can be done despite the inherited underdevelopment and the longest economic and financial blockade that any people has ever endured! ”