Fidel Castro

“How can we help President Obama?”

“I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.”

“To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.”

“We do not need the empire to give us anything.”

“The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.”

“No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”

“My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.”

“Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.”

“We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.”

“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.”

“Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.”

“Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.”

“Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.”

“Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.”

“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.”

“Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.”

“When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.”

“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.”

“Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.”