Fidel Castro
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.Collection: Science
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.Collection: Independence
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.Collection: History
Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.Collection: Education
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Age
I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.Collection: Politics
At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.Collection: Family
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.Collection: History
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.Collection: Faith
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.Collection: Men
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.Collection: Politics
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.Collection: Respect
Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!Collection: Death
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.Collection: Politics
Defending peace is the duty of all.Collection: Peace
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?Collection: Success
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.Collection: History
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.Collection: Men
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.Collection: War
The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.
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.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
How can we help President Obama?
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
I am a just man.
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.