Fidel Castro & Human Rights/ First statement at the UN General Assembly, September 26th 1960.

(...) The right of peasants to the land; the right of workers to the fruit of their labor, the right of children to education; the right of the ill to medical and hospital attention; the right of youth to work; the right of students to free, experimental, and scientific education; the right of black people and Indians to "the full dignity of man"; the right of women to civil, social and political equality; the right of the elderly to secure old-age; the right of intellectuals, artists, and scientists to fight, with their works, for a better world; State’s rights to the nationalization of imperialist monopolies, thus recovering national wealth and resources; the rights of nations to free trade with all the peoples worldwide; the right of nations to their full sovereignty; the right of nations to turn fortresses into schools, and to arm their workers” - because we need to arm our people to defend ourselves from imperialist attacks- “their peasants, their students, their intellectuals, black people, Indians, women, the young and the old, all those oppressed and exploited, so that they may self-defend their rights and their destinies. Some wanted to know the line followed by the Revolutionary Government of Cuba. Well, this is our line. 

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