Fidel Castro Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• 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

• The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

  Fidel Castro

  Change, Revolution, Revolutionary

  Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro (2008). “Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography”, p.639, Simon and Schuster

• We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

  Fidel Castro

  Revolution, Politician, Made

  1961 Speech on assuming the presidency, two years after overthrowing the Batista regime.

• One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

  Fidel Castro

  College, Benefits, Revolution

  "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

  Fidel Castro

  Bed Of Roses, Rose, Bed

  Fidel Castro's remarks in 1959, as quoted in "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

• The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.

  Fidel Castro

  Philosophy, Science, Technology

  "Fidel Castro". Book by Enrique Meneses, 1968.

• 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.

  Fidel Castro

  People, Giving, Revolution

  "Playa Giron/Bay of Pigs: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas" by José Ramón Fernández, (p. 58), 2001.

• 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

• Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary... Humanity will, of course, change; human society will, of course, continue to develop - in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.

  Fidel Castro

  Attitude, Men, Errors

  Fidel Castro's speech at the closing of the first conference of OLAS in Havana’s Chaplin Theater, www.marxists.org. August 10, 1967.

• 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.

• Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

  Fidel Castro

  Achievement, Doe, Revolution

• The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Government, America

• Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

  Fidel Castro

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Fidel Castro (2006). “Che: A Memoir”, p.91, Ocean Press

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