"Even though it hurts our modesty, it is a bitter duty to say that our blockaded, threatened and slandered country has shown that Latin American peoples can live without either violence or drugs. It can even live, and that’s what has happened for more than half a century, without relations with the United States. That is something we haven’t shown; they have. "
“We need to awaken the faith of the peoples, and the faith of the peoples is not awakened with promises, the faith of the peoples is not awakened with theories, the faith of the peoples is not awakened with rhetoric; the faith of the peoples is awakened with facts, the faith of the peoples is awakened with realities, the faith of the peoples is awakened with true solutions."
“[…] It has been our tradition since our war of liberation; we made the war being generous, respecting our adversary, respecting our enemy. That is a basic fact of our history; if it were not so, we would not have the support of our people…”
“The secret of the survival of the Cuban Revolution is the consensus of the people, the support of the people.”
“We have always found in the people –our people and the other peoples—such nobleness and kindness, that we feel it is precisely the people, it is precisely the masses that create noble and kind sentiments in revolutionaries.”
“Peoples must struggle to protect not just their economy, their rights; they must struggle to defend their very survival. The environment is being swept away, it’s being destroyed. Only one year ago, Mitch went through Central America with devastating results, and now we see pictures of colossal floods, a visible climatic change that nobody can deny any more. Who does this hit before anybody else? The poorest countries, the countries of the Third World.”
“The Revolution must aspire to have the friendship and congeniality of all the peoples of the world; the Revolution must aspire to have trade relations with all the peoples of the world; the Revolution must aspire to all friendly relations with all the peoples of the world.”
“We cannot say that the pain is shared. The pain multiplies. Today millions of Cubans weep alongside the loved ones of the victims of that abominable crime. And when an energetic and virile people weep, injustice trembles!”
“A people are nothing without honour, without decorum, without independence and without dignity, never mind the life of a people!”
“the sum total of intelligence and creative capacity of all can make great miracles, those miracles that can be made by man with his efforts, his courage, his tenacity, his noble sentiments and his solidarity.”