Fidel Castro quotes

A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)
This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell. View quote
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. View quote
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I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life. View quote
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? View quote
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. View quote
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. View quote
Fidel Castro
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. View quote
Fidel Castro
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. View quote
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. View quote
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. (Fidel Castro)
Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives. View quote
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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun. View quote
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution. View quote
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains. View quote
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers. View quote
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I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason. View quote
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars. View quote
Fidel Castro
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there can be no offense. View quote
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I'm not attached to anything. I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on. View quote
Fidel Castro
In other words: Within the revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing. Against the revolution, nothing, because the revolution also has its rights, and the first right of the revolution is the right to exist, and no one can oppose the revolution's right to exist. Inasmuch as the revolution embodies the interests of the people, inasmuch as the revolution symbolizes the interests of the whole naion, no one can justly claim a right to oppose it. (Fidel Castro)
Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain as proof on this planet that if they are worked at with fervor and dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that human beings need, and we need to fight without a truce to obtain them. View quote
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Human rights are very often spoken of, but we must also speak of humanity's rights. Why should some people go barefoot that others may travel in expensive cars? Why should some live only 35 years that others may live 70? Why should some be miserably poor that others may be exaggeratedly rich? I speak on behalf of the children of the world who do not even have a piece of bread. I speak on behalf of the sick who lack medicine. I speak to you on behalf of those who have been denied the right to life and human dignity. View quote
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...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing. View quote
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. View quote
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