The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left. – Fidel Castro
The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might. – Fidel Castro
At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran. – Fidel Castro
Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony. – Fidel Castro
During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country. – Fidel Castro
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. – Fidel Castro
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery. – Fidel Castro
I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail. – Fidel Castro
The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known. – Fidel Castro
NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind. – Fidel Castro
When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil. – Fidel Castro
Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba. – Fidel Castro
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life. – Fidel Castro
To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome. – Fidel Castro
Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master. – Fidel Castro
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. – Fidel Castro
The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet. – Fidel Castro