No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Interpretation
Fidel Castro emphasizes the authenticity and seriousness of the revolution, rejecting any negative influences.
In this quote, Fidel Castro asserts the integrity of a revolutionary movement by asserting that it is free from external betrayal, criminality, or manipulation. He implies that this revolution is genuine and transformative, aimed at true change without the interference of those who would thwart its efforts.
In practice
This quote is inspirational for activists rallying for social justice.
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.
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
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.
No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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.
...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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