“The only hope the counter-revolution has to usurp power, since it knows that it doesn’t have the least possibility of usurping power with the people, is with foreign help; thus the counter-revolutionaries are, above all else, traitors to their homeland, inveiglers from abroad, go-betweens who whisper into the ear of the powerful foreigner to see if, with all their resources, they can plant counter-revolution here in the soil of our homeland again.”
Quotes
“ […] What has Cuba done to be condemned? What have the Cuban people done to merit the Declaration of Costa Rica? Our people have done nothing but break the chains! Our people have done nothing else but fighting for a better future, without hurting any other people or taking anything away from any other people.”
"When the philosophy of plundering is gone, the philosophy of war shall be no more!"
"Because what the imperialists cannot forgive us for is that, we are here. What the imperialists cannot forgive us for is the dignity, the integrity, the courage, the firmness of ideas, the spirit of sacrifice, and the revolutionary spirit of the people of Cuba".
“We are fighting in the defence of the sacred Homeland and the Revolution, against the mercenary attack organized by the imperialist government of the United States.”
"Where the roads of the peoples are closed, where the repression of the workers and peasants is fierce, where the domination of the Yankee monopolies is stronger, the first and most important thing is to understand that it is neither just nor correct to entertain the peoples with the vain and accommodating illusion of pulling out, by legal means that do not exist and will not exist, from the dominant classes, entrenched in all the positions of the State, monopolizers of instruction, owners of all the vehicles of dissemination and possessors of infinite financial resources, a power that the monopolies and the oligarchies will defend with blood and fire with the force of their police forces and their armies".
“The peoples think that the only thing incompatible with the destiny of Latin America is misery, feudal exploitation, illiteracy, starvation wages, unemployment, the policy of repression against the masses of workers, peasants and students, discrimination against women, blacks, indigenous people and mestizos, the oppression of the oligarchies, the plundering of their wealth by the US monopolies, the moral suffocation of their intellectuals and artists, the ruin of their small producers by foreign competition, the economic underdevelopment, the peoples without roads, without hospitals, without housing, without schools, without industries, the submission to imperialism, the renunciation of national sovereignty and the betrayal of the homeland”.
“And in the face of the objective and historically inexorable reality of the Latin American revolution, what is the attitude of US imperialism? To prepare to wage a colonial war with the peoples of Latin America; to create the apparatus of force, the political pretexts and the pseudo-legal instruments signed with the representatives of the reactionary oligarchies to repress with blood and fire the struggle of the Latin American peoples”.
“Above the lies and slander, above the repression and force, of propaganda and imperialist crimes, the Cuban workers and peasants have buried capitalist society for good, as a veritable corpse that can never again come back to life.”
“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.”
“[…] as peoples are liberating themselves from all those bonds, from the fear the oligarchies inspire with their terror and their crimes, when what happened here happens in the other sister countries of Latin America, we shall see what the imperialists can do.”
"The point is that it is not only the warrior what we admire in Che or the man capable of great feats. And what he did, and what he was doing, that fact in itself of facing with only a handful of men an entire oligarchic army, instructed by the Yankee advisers supplied by Yankee imperialism, supported by the oligarchies of all neighboring countries, that fact in itself constitutes an extraordinary feat".