“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!”
Quotes
“Viet Nam is a most cherished name too close to the hearts of all Cubans. To all of us Viet Nam has been an example to follow and an incentive in our struggle. The Cuban people is very much aware of the extraordinary role played by the people of Viet Nam within the world’s revolutionary movement and in people’s liberation struggles. Viet Nam has taught an unforgettable lesson to all the exploited and oppressed peoples. No liberation movement, none of the peoples that have struggled for their independence have had to wage a struggle as prolonged and heroic as that waged by the people of Viet Nam.”
“Vietnam is a most cherished name too close to the hearts of all Cubans. To all of us Vietnam has been an example to follow and an incentive in our struggle. The Cuban people is very much aware of the extraordinary role played by the people of Vietnam within the world’s revolutionary movement and in people’s liberation struggles. Vietnam has taught an unforgettable lesson to all the exploited and oppressed peoples. No liberation movement, none of the peoples that have struggled for their independence have had to wage a struggle as prolonged and heroic as that waged by the people of Vietnam.”
"Our forefathers didnot know independence, they didnot know freedom. And although we have obligations, must make sacrifices, must fight and work very hard, at least, we have known independence, dignity and freedom.."
"The developing countries, and the Non-Aligned Movement on their behalf, demand that an important part of the immense resources being squandered today on the arms race should be devoted to development; at the same time this would contribute to pushing back the dangers of war and it would facilitate improving the international situation".
"the non-aligned countries are not opposed to solutions that may be achieved without armed struggle, provided that they are able to arise from a true government of the majority and in these independence is attained in a form which satisfies the combatant peoples (...)"
“Our country could be swept off the Earth, but it could never be conquered and submitted.”
“We must nurture values. There is no alternative, if within a maximum of freedom, because authentic values are those practiced in the greatest freedom”.
"It would be much more accurate to say that without equality and fraternity, the sacred slogans of the bourgeois revolution, there can never be liberty and that equality and fraternity are absolutely incompatible with the laws of the market."
"There are a thousand questions that cannot be answered. Saying that the freedom of man and the absolute freedom of the market are inseparable concepts is deceitful as if the laws of the market which have given rise to the most selfish, unequal and merciless social systems man has known were compatible with the freedom of the human being turned by the system into simple merchandise".
"The various US administrations with their blockade, their constant harassment and their exclusions have given us the possibility of fighting them in full and of being even joyful to be excluded in exchange for the freedom to speak without compromise in any forum of the world where there are so many fair causes to defend".
“Today more than ever we must be followers of Bolívar. Now more than ever we must raise the banner with the concept that humanity is our motherland, aware that we can only be saved if humanity is saved. We can only be free --and we are very far from being free-- if and when humanity is free. If and when we achieve a really fair world, which is possible and probable”.