Cuban History Quotes

#1. One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

Jack McDevitt

#2. This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

Harper Lee

#3. Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

Ned Sublette

#4. If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#5. We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

Mark Cuban

#6. If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

Bruce Lee

#7. I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

Mark Cuban

#8. Slavery all day,
and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

Margarita Engle

#9. We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Thomas Merton

#10. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

Fidel Castro

#11. I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#12. Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

Eugenio Montale

#13. We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.

Andy Stern

#14. To our allies and our friends and our partners. Listen closely. We are with you. America will not abandon you.

John R. Allen

#15. I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

Assata Shakur

#16. [On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.

Elsa Einstein

#17. The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Fidel Castro

#18. Some would have us believe that God is present everywhere. It is not so

Brigham Young

#19. Fifty years of isolating Cuba has failed to promote democracy" Barack Obama, 44th and current President of the USA. "Let's move ahead!" Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#20. She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Clarice Lispector

#21. Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.

Taylor Swift

#22. The woman's march of today have deep roots and shoud be respected. Our country must find unification and not division, with men as well as women of all parties rallying around their cause!" Captain Hank Bracker, author of "The Exciting Story of Cuba.

Hank Bracker