CULTURE

"The tyranny of an order that imposes blind, anarchic and chaotic principles leading the human species toward an abyss must be stopped.  Nature must be saved.  National identities must be preserved.  The culture of every country must be protected.  Equality, fraternity and true liberty must prevail.  The unfathomable gap between the rich and the poor countries, and within each country, must not continue to widen it must rather diminish until one day it ceases to exist. Let it be the merits, the ability, the creative spirit and what man can contribute to the well-being of humanity that determine their differences and not theft, speculation or the exploitation of the weaker.  A humane spirit should truly be proclaimed, not with hypocritical words but with deeds."

"No people become revolutionary by force. Those who sow ideas have no need to suppress the people ever. Weapons in the hands of that same people are used to fight those abroad who try to take away their achievements".

"A revolution can only be born from culture and ideas".

"Namely, that there can be no culture without sovereignty".

I believe in the unity of all the countries in the world, in the unity of all the peoples in the world and in a free unity, a truly free unity. I am not thinking of a fusion but of a free unity of all cultures in a truly just world, in a truly democratic world.

"Let’s speak of justice, freedom and human rights where there is equality, respect for everyone, culture for everyone because without culture there cannot be freedom, without culture you cannot even be a democrat."

"We dream of a world not ruled by a false single universal culture but rather where all cultures survive and develop; a world where all languages survive and develop".

“To begin with, I will say that neither in the first or the second half of this century nor at any other time in history has a country done or achieved as much in sports as Cuba in an extremely short period of time. And it is a small Third World country, one that is additionally subjected to an economic blockade by the wealthiest and mightiest nation on Earth as well as to a thousand different forms of harassment and aggression”.

"We are with you here today sharing our love for a flag that over an evocative and glorious red triangle proudly shows a lone star that chose to be so. And, it will remain a lone star until the day comes when it will definitely join the symbols of those who share the same culture, the same history, the same blood and the same language. We are here because we are what we wanted to be and we will be what we want to be".

"We will fight against this vicious law, this heinous and criminal law. We will keep fighting until it has been repealed. Only then can we be certain that thousands of innocent children will not be illegally uprooted from their homeland, from their schools, from their identities, and subjected to extreme dangers, or even death. No matter how much it hurts, the Revolution will continue to respect as something sacred the parental rights of our citizens and their right to leave with their children, by legal and safe means, for other countries, to opt for another identity, another kind of education, another culture, another flag".