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1926–2016 Cuba
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and communist revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 to 2011, Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. A Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, Castro also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011.
Also known as: Castro, Castro Fidel, Castro, Fidel
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Marxism-Leninism is ultimately deeply internationalist and, at the same time, deeply patriotic.
I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure Jesus Christ.
For thirty years the Cubans fought alone for their independence; thirty years of struggle that strengthened our love for freedom and independence.
At the United Nations (1960)
A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
With Fidel : A Portrait of Castro and Cuba (1976)
I sincerely believe revolution to be the source of legal right; but the nocturnal armed assault of March 10 could never be considered a revolution.
History Will Absolve Me (1953)
This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
But it was consistent with the lie that Cohen had made to the Committee, is that right?
Marxism-Leninism is the denial of the exploitation of man by man, that has been precisely the source of crimes, wars, oppressions and calamities that humanity has suffered over millennia.
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.
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
Today the battle cry is for liberation from the most powerful world imperialist center, from the strongest force of world imperialism, and to render humanity a greater than that rendered by our predecessors.
The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
What was fascism in Italy, in Germany? The exaltation of racial prejudices. Instead of fighting racial prejudice, which is what a revolution does, fascism exalts prejudice and turns it into hatred.
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
Now when you're talking about the party line here, the party line in this case...
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
Although it was widely reported in the press.
The death of a fighter is not a reason to mourn, if we believe, as we have always believed, as our people have believed and as revolutionaries of every era have believed, that no true man, no true revolutionary dies in vain.
Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues.
University of Havana address (2005)
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