Fidel Castro

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

"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."

"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

"Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people."

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

"Defending peace is the duty of all."

"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."

"Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people."

"Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!"

"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."

"Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour."

"Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group."

"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."

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

"Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable."

"The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt."

"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."

"The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty."

"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."

"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"