I view Che, furthermore, as a moral giant who grows day by day, whose image, whose strength, whose influence has multiplied throughout the world. How… - Fidel Castro

Es que, cuando los hombres llevan en la mente un mismo ideal, nada puede incomunicarlos, ni las paredes de una cárcel, ni la tierra de los cementerios, porque un mismo recuerdo, una misma alma, una misma idea, una misma conciencia y dignidad los alienta a todos.

In consequence, the National General Assembly of the People of Cuba proclaims before America: <p>the right of peasants to land;</p> <p>the right of the worker to the fruit of his labor;</p> <p>the right of children to receive education;</p> <p>the right of the sick to receive medical and hospital care;</p> <p>the right of the young to work;</p> <p>the right of students to receive free instruction, practical and scientific;</p> <p>the right of Negroes and Indians to 'a full measure of human dignity';</p> <p>the right of woman to civil, social and political equality;</p> <p>the right of the aged to secure old age;</p> <p>the right of intellectuals, artists and scientists to fight through their work for a better world;</p> <p>the right of States to nationalize imperialist monopolies as a means of recovering national wealth and resources;</p> <p>the right of countries to engage freely in trade with all other countries of the world;</p> <p>the right of nations to full sovereignty;</p> <p>the right of people to convert their fortresses into schools and to arm their workers, peasants, students, intellectuals, Negroes, Indians, women, the young, the old, all the oppressed and exploited; that they may better defend, with their own hands, their rights and their future.</p>

But Cuba was a fruit — according to the opinion of a President of the United States at the beginning of the past century, John Adams —, it was an apple hanging from the Spanish tree, destined to fall, as soon as it was ripe enough, into the hands of the United States.