Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro (1926-2016), full name Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, was a Cuban revolutionary and political leader. He led uprising against Cuban President Batista. He was named prime minister in 1959. He established Marxist-Leninist programme to govern Cuba, replaced US economic dominance of Cuba with dependence on the Soviet Union and other communist countries. He became president of the nonaligned countries' movement in 1979. With fall of Soviet Union, his government weakened.Wisdom & Quotes
- I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexists.
- A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
- It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
- 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.
Anne Sexton