“I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about 'hope' and 'change'. His name was Fidel Castro.” RememberYoungFoundNamesStrongTalkingLeaderMilitaryRevolutionGrewInvolvedGrew UpRoseTeenagerDictatorshipCubaCharismaticCastroHope And Change Author:Rafael Cruz
“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.” ThinkingMeanRealLevelsCasesExampleRevolutionConnectionsPopulationExtremesCoreLiberationCubaCubanHigh LevelInternationalismCuban RevolutionReal ConnectionAngola Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” IfsKnowsImportantEnoughStarsAttentionRocksRevolutionSmartPopulationPay AttentionIndigenousRock StarCubaCubanCuban Revolution Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a very cruel, oppressive dictatorship, and the revolution started in the high schools and the universities. So when I was 14, I was involved in the revolution. I was in the revolution four years. During that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up in Cuba, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.” YearsAgeSchoolYoungSufferingNamesBornTalkingLeaderFourRevolutionInvolvedHigh SchoolRoseUniversityFour YearsDictatorshipCubaCharismaticCastroHope And Change Author:Ted Cruz
“The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.” PeopleThinkingMenBelieveWellsTogetherRevolutionCatholicDon't BelieveVery GoodCombinationWorking TogetherCubaMarxistCastro Author:Dorothy Day
“The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down.” LongHelpingSidesStruggleStudentsRevolutionCommunistContinuingInvasionCubaProvincesCastro Author:Dorothy Day
“It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.” WholeMightRevolutionGrewCubaMarxistCastro Author:Dorothy Day
“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.” PeopleIfsMindHeartSpiritHumanityExpressionRevolutionUniversalHeart And MindHis LovePardonCubaCubanCastroCuban RevolutionLove For Humanity Author:Louis Farrakhan
“A man like Fidel Castro doesn't die: He is in the hearts and minds of the children who lined the streets when his ashes were driven from Havana, tracing the route of the revolution back to Santiago de Cuba.” MenMindHeartChildrenDiesStreetsRevolutionDrivenAshesRoutesHeart And MindCubaCastroTracingHavanaSantiago Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that China and Russia, after all that revolution, have become capitalist economies, not just that the working class has been ruined in the United States and its unions dismantled, not just that Greece has been brought to its knees, or that Cuba will soon be assimilated into the free market - it is also that the language of the Left, the discourse of the Left, has been marginalised and is sought to be eradicated.” PeopleHas BeensStatesTodayLeftLanguageUnitedClassMillionsUnited StatesEconomyRevolutionTragedyUnionsIraqChinaRussiaKneesIranCommunistAfghanistanVietnamCapitalistSocialistWorking ClassDiscourseRuinedFree MarketGreeceIndonesiaCubaCapitalist Economy Author:Arundhati Roy
“In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked for us and the clearest evidence that our democracy has worked is that there is a revolution that has continued after a half century of facing down the most powerful empire. This has not happened many times in history.” ShouldPowerfulHalfDemocracyHappenedCenturyRevolutionEvidenceExperimentsEmpiresMost PowerfulCubaDemocracies Have Author:Alejandro Castro Espin