Speech at the evening commemorating One Hundred Years of Struggle at La Demajagua on October 10, 1968. February 27

“[…] what truly ennobles Céspedes is not only the decision he adopted, steadfast and resolute in rising up in arms, but the act with which he accompanied that decision,  that of granting freedom to his slaves at the same time as proclaiming his opinion about slavery, his readiness for  the abolition of slavery in our country, […]”