“Now the people have the sort of peace they wanted: peace without dictatorship, peace without censorship, peace without persecution”.
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[…] and I promise you, with the seriousness with which we have always promised to do things and lived up to our promises, that I will be the last to use a weapon here to solve any problem; that I will the most firm, determined an consistent advocate of peace, […]
"The worst crime that could be committed now in Cuba, would be a crime against the peace. The thing that nobody in Cuba could forgive now would be if someone conspired against the peace".
"(...) we must strive for peace and we must strive for disarmament, because one fifth of what the world is spending in weapons could be used to promote development."
“We are, simply, a country that has lived up to the moment it is living, a people that, when it was necessary, gathered all the heroics it has inside, all the tenacity, all the braveness, all the nobility, all it has good inside so it could resist all dangers, so it could face all contingencies”.
“We want a peace which benefits to an equal degree the great and the small, the powerful and the weak, which covers all spheres in the world and reaches all of its citizens.”
"Can anyone be surprised then that the Conference should be obliged, for reasons not arising from any political prejudice but from the objective analysis of the facts, to point out that United States policy plays a fundamental part in preventing the establishment of just and complete peace in the region, by allying itself with and backing Israel and by working to obtain partial solutions favoring Zionist aims and ensuring the fruits of Israeli aggression at the cost of the Arab peoples of Palestine and of the entire Arab nation?"
“We revolutionaries, by our natures, are optimists. But we do not believe in spontaneity: we believe in peace, in détente, in the civilized coexistence among governments, we must attain them with our struggle and with our strength”.
“Peace is just the primary condition so that we can overturn, according to our beliefs, the colossal sources of energy and resources necessary for all of humanity, and not just for one part of it, to be able to live honourably, decently and decorously.”
“Peace is just the primary condition so that we can overturn, according to our beliefs, the colossal sources of energy and resources necessary for all of humanity, and not just for one part of it, to be able to live honourably, decently and decorously.”
“We insist here that to us peace is fundamental and peace is closely linked to development. It is impossible to conceive development without peace and disarmament; and to think of peace without development would not be realistic.”
“The question does not stem from the fact that every country in our area strives to save themselves on their own, because it is an impossible dream in a world dominated today by industrial and political giants. We need to create a giant, among all of us, so that we can truly develop ourselves and enjoy peace, independence and security.”