Zitat des Tages von Fidel Castro:
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.
The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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.
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day 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.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
I am a just man.
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'
Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.
No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
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.
It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.