Fidel Castro

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

Words without deeds are worthless.

We have a saying in Cuba: 'Those who are silent are complicit.'

The final hour of the capitalist system is near.

Education is the key to the future.

I feel like a prophet who has returned to his people.

Rebellion is the noblest word in the language.

The ideas of the revolution are immortal.

We are willing to discuss anything except our sovereignty.

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

The U.S. has other options besides invading Cuba.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Cuban Revolution.

Our vocation is not to be feared, but to be loved.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

Freedom is not given; it is taken.

We are fighting for the basic values of human society.

The time has come to put an end to the exploitation of man by man.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and shall be one until the last day of my life.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Solidarity is the tenderness of the peoples.