Cuban Revolution Quotes

• From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of
  inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orquestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution. Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiration, Sacrifice, Long

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  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.

  Fidel Castro

  Military, Men, History

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1959

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

  Fidel Castro

  Struggle, Past, Revolution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  Fidel Castro

  Military, Politics, Revolution

  "With Fidel: A portrait of Castro and Cuba". Book by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, 1975.

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• I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Have Faith, Matter

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1959

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• Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

  Regis Debray

  Latin, Moving, Marine

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• I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

  Fidel Castro

  Sacrifice, People, Victory

  "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike". The New York Times, October 23, 1992.

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

  Fidel Castro

  Fake People, Real, Thieves

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

  Fidel Castro

  Cuba, Castro

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Reality, Eugenics

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.

  Tom Gjelten

  Men, Revolution, Dozen

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Stars, Smart, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  Fidel Castro

  Jesus, Ideas, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Fidel Castro

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Fidel Castro's letter from prison, December 19, 1953.

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• Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he was an internationalist, and he put that spirit in the hearts and minds of the Cuban people through the Cuban Revolution.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Heart, Expression, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

  Huey Newton

  Mother, School, Revolution

  Source: www.afro.com

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• The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?

  Malcolm X

  Real, Latin, Men

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• I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean, these cases you've mentioned are cases in point, but the most extreme case was the liberation of Africa. Take the case of Angola for example, and there are real connections between Cuba and Angola-much of the Cuban population comes from Angola.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, Done, Revolution

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• We have a complete respect for history, we respect the experiences of other countries and we have our own, but the truth is that if the Cuban revolution had not been a democracy it would not have survived.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Democracy, Revolution

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.

  Tariq Ali

  Thinking, Tragedy, Unions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Men, Unique

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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