Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz; born August 13, 1926), commonly known as Fidel Castro, is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth13 August 1926
CityBiran, Cuba
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care,
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.