QUOTES TAKEN FROM SPEECHES MADE BY FIDEL CASTRO IN 1959 AND 1960

Created: 4/8/1970

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BY FIDEL CASTRO IK A. CASTRO

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HERE. THE BLUE SHIRTS OF OU1 MILITIAMEN, WHICH MAKE ALL MEN LOOK ALIKE HERS TODAY, IS PERFECT PROOF OF THE FACT THAT THIS IS A FIGHTING VORfBR SECTOR, THAT THIS ORKER SECTOR OF WHICH THE PEOPLE AMD THE FATHERLAND HAVE

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SYSTEM OF CCLLECTIVK VIGILANCE AND WE SHALL SEE

LACKEYS OF IMPERIALISMSG TO GET AROUND

WE SHALL SETOLLECTIVE REVOLUTIONARY VIGILANCE SYSTEM

AND EVERYONE ON THEE KNOWN. THE GROUP KILL

FIND OUT WHAT EVERYONE ON THE BLOCK IS DOING, HIS RELATIONS

WITH TYRANNY, WHAT HIS ACTIVITIESARE GOING TO

SETEVOLUTIONARY VIGILANCE COMMITTEE ON EVERY BLCCK

SO THAT THE PEOPLE CANAT IS GOING ON. THE IMPERIALISTS

ARE DEALING WITH THE PEOPLE, TREMENDOUS REVOLUTIONARY POT

AND THEIR LACKEYS WILL NOT DS ABLE TOOVE. THEY

AND THEY DO NOT KNOW YET THE

ER OF THE PEOPLE. THEREFORE,

NEW STEPS MUST BE TAKENE ORGANIZATION AND THE MILITIA.

MILITIA BATTALIONS WILL BE CREATED THROUGHOUT CUBA. EACH

MAN FOR EACH WEAPON WILL BE SELECTED. TRUCTURE WILL GIVEN

BE KXKKTO THE ENTIRE MASS OF MILITIAMEN SO THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OUR COMBAT UNITS WILL HE PERFECTLY

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MISSION SILL BE ASSIGNEDEA SINGLE

COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY ELEMENT Ul'ST ESCAPENCE OF THE PEOPLE. WE WILL GRADUALLY CONTINUE SETTING UP

VIGILANCE OF THE PEOPLE. SETTING UP THE VIGILANCE COM*

WE WILL GRADUALLY CONTINUE 1TTEES BUILDING BY BUILDING,

BY DISTRICT. WE HAVE ORGANIZED THE "JILITIA FOR

PEOPLE

THE FRONTAL STRUGGLE. WE MUST NOW ORGANIZE THE/FOR THE

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HEREHE SECTOR Of TlA PEOPLE

HUE TO THE MEN HEREECTOR Or COMBAT AND

IN WHICH THE REVOLUTION HAS THE GREATEST HOPES, THE SECTOR WHICH HAS SACRIFICED THE MOST. THE BLUE SHIRTS OF THE MILITIAMENING ARE PllOOF THAT THISORK

STRUGGLE. THIS ORKERS' SECTORWHICH THE COUNTRY CAN EXPECT TKE BEST, RUBIEST, AND HOST DECISIVE

BATTLERS AGAINST TKE ENEMIES OF THE

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