Dorothy Day Quotes

Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die!

There are only two groups I recognize in Cuba: those who wholly support the revolution and those who are joining the reactionaries.

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

Havana.- If 1959 was the Year of Liberation, 1960 was the Year of the Agrarian Reform. The nation lived days of intense transformations, not only political but, also, in every aspect of social and individual activity of its citizens.

Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

Che Guevara was a racist.

Fidel is a Marxist-Leninist. I am not. Fidel is an atheist. I am not. One day, we discussed God and Christ. I told Castro, I am a Christian. I believe in the Social Gospels of Christ. He doesn't. Just doesn't. More than once, Castro told me that Venezuela is not Cuba, and we are not in the 1960s.

To the developing world, Cuba has been a symbol of sovereignty and resistance and a supporter of revolution - for good or bad. From the Missile Crisis to the anti-apartheid movement, from the Kennedys to Obama era, this small island has put itself at the center of world events.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

The goal of socialism is communism.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.