Fidel Castro - SPEECH TO BANK WORKERS' FEDERATION lyrics

Source: Revolucion (Revolution), 20 October 1959, Havana. Land and Food And to those who threaten us with refusal to buy our products, we can say that while there is land, there is food, and that we will establish world trade, without need to depend on a single market. We are going to develop all our economic potential and we will sell products to all the corners of the world. Because to top it all, it is claimed that a people has no relations with the rest of the world, and in addition they threaten it with refusal to purchase what it produces. For if we do not rule in our country, why do we need a flag, an anthem, the title of free country? And we must ask those who threaten to oblige us to do what they want if indeed we lack hands? Because there is no greater truth than that which says that without economic freedom one cannot have political freedom. *** No Petty Politicking All that will count here is the voice of the people, and measures will be adopted when the people say. We are not motiviated by ambition, and for this reason, we have a clear conscience. We have to do what was not done in 50 years. First, we will resolve the problems of republic, and then let the politicians come, for they will not deceive even the children. The future generation will be truly educated. We are training them for a better future than this. Let the politicians resolve to try. Let him who aspires to be outstanding try to be the most self-sacrificing and the most patriotic. Here we will do what the people want. They confuse elections with petty politicking. If we have elections, certainly we will win them, but what they want is for us to lose time with politics. They want to hold back the revolution, divide it, diminish it. Our philosophy is to do what the people decide. -END-