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
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.
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
...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.
If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated... Where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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.
For now, ... get me a New York Times reporter up here.