Fidel Castro Quotes

• I was a man lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis long before becoming a fully-fledged communist. Discovering Marxism was like finding a map in a forest.

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• A man who does not believe in human beings is not a revolutionary.

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• We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

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• History will absolve me.

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• I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

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• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

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

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• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

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

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• I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

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• How can we help President Obama?

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• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

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• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

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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.

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

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• I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

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• More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

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Fidel Castro (25)

Birth:	13th August, 1926
Nationality:	Cuban
Profession:	Politician, Revolutionary

About

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born in Birán, Holguin Province, Cuba. He is a Cuban communist politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008, and as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Politically a Marxist-Leninist, under his administration the Republic of Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and businesses were nationalized, and socialist reforms implemented in all areas of society.

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