Cuban revolution Quote by Fidel Castro

“We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”

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Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

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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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“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”

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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,…

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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

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None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

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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…

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Ideas do not need weapons.

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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is…

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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed…

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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

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“Much of Sartre’s time in the 1960s was spent travelling in China and the Third World, a term invented by the geographer Alfred Sauvy in 1952 but which Sartre popularized. He and de Beauvoir became familiar figures, photographed chatting with various Afro-Asian dictators-he in his First World suits and shirts, she in her schoolmarm cardigans enlivened by ‘ethnic’ skirts and…

Paul Johnson

The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man…

Malcolm X

Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he…

Louis Farrakhan

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“and some other shit, and the wife—can’t remember her name—would cry a lot. The kids were young. Three of them. They were okay, but they always talked about the big house they had in Cuba. And servants. So I guess they all felt like they got fucked.” He smiled. “Hey, I was born fucked in New Jersey.” There were two…

Nelson DeMille

“In 1933, Batista closely allied himself with the newly created, five-man Presidency of Cuba named “The Pentarchy.” Sergio Carbó y Morera, an influential member of the new Executive Commission of the Pentarchy, became Batista’s inside man. On the morning of September 8th, with the country in a precarious state of instability, and as the self-appointed head of the Provisional Government…

Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

Tariq Ali

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“The Directorio Revolucionario (“DR”) existed during the mid-1950’s and it was a Cuban University students’ group in opposition to the dictator President Fulgencio Batista. It was one of the most active terrorist organizations in Havana. Although they were given orders not to attack the rank and file police officers, semantics became important, as their targets were no longer “assassinated,” but…

Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of…

Mario Vargas Llosa

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I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel]…

Huey Newton

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“…the following day, after only six months in office, Manuel Urrutia Lleó resigned from the Presidency of Cuba, to which people in attendance started to applaud. He simply took off his suit coat and changed into a guayabera. Then leaving through a back door, he made his way to the Venezuelan Embassy where he sought asylum. Shortly thereafter, he emigrated…

Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba