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
Never has the revolution had so much unity, strength and experience as today,
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.
There was illiteracy, the workers were being expelled from the factories, and the best lands where in the hands of the rich. That's why the revolution triumphed.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution
Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.