Fidel Castro Quotes

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Fidel Castro

Profession : Statesman

Birth : August 13, 1926

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Fidel Castro

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.

Fidel Castro

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

Fidel Castro

None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

Fidel Castro

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Fidel Castro

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Fidel Castro

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Fidel Castro

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

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The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Fidel Castro

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

Fidel Castro