Quotes

“This is the same country, and this is the same people of Cespedes and of Marti. This is the country, the same country, the same people of Agramonte and Maximo Gomez. This is the same country and people of the Bronze Titan, Antonio Maceo. This is the same country and same people of Yara and of Bayamo, of the protest from Baragua. This is the same country and same people of Moncada, the Bay of Pigs and Internationalism, we all now have a greater revolutionary awareness than ever before in our history. This people and this country will know how to be consistent with their glorious history!”
Speeches and Interventions: Speech at the commemorative ceremony for the 36th anniversary of Attack on the Moncada Barracks, held in the Major General Ignacio Agramonte Square, in Camagüey, on July 26, 1989
"Forty-five years have passed since the assault on the Moncada. Our country had been struggling for its independence and its rights for more than a century. Maceo, Gómez and other fighters struggled from 1868 until 1898. They suffered the humiliation of not being able to hoist their flag in this heroic city, of not even being able to enter it after 30 years of a self-sacrificing, admirable and heroic struggle. But the day came when those flags were hoisted and their ideas triumphed, ideas which were ever-changing and which never stopped evolving into something better. Every new idea can be a step towards the pinnacle of human progress.”
Speeches and Interventions: Speech given at the main ceremony for the 45th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks, in Santiago de Cuba, on July 26, 1998.
"Our generation has fulfilled its duty after having struggled without respite for 45 years, from that July 26, 1953 onwards, maintaining a steadfast position of principles, with the same ideas that inspired us that day."
Speeches and Interventions: Speech given at the main ceremony for the 45th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks, in Santiago de Cuba, on July 26, 1998.
"(…..) What are they this July 26? They are an indestructible path linking the thought, the heroism and the will to struggle of that imperishable bulwark with whose independence Martí wanted to prevent, and did prevent, the powerful and expansionist neighbour to the North from spreading through the Antilles and falling with that additional force on our American lands."
Speeches and Interventions: Speech at the public rally held in the Revolution Square in Ciego de Avila on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks, on July 26, 2002.
"José Martí, the Apostle of Independence, a genius of the ideas, and of the noblest ideas that can ever be conceived; the National Hero of our homeland, whose ideas inspired the Centennial Generation and today inspire and will continue to inspire all of our people more and more."
Speeches and Interventions: Address at the ceremony held in celebration of the 53rd anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks at the “Homeland Square” of Bayamo, Granma, July 26, 2006.
"The Moncada Program was fulfilled, and over-fulfilled. For some time now, we have been pursuing even greater and previously unimaginable dreams. Today, great battles are being waged in the area of ideas, while confronting problems associated with the world situation, perhaps the most critical ever to face humanity.”
Speeches and Interventions: Speech at the ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Barracks, in Santiago de Cuba, on July 26, 2003