Quotation by Fidel Castro:

History will absolve me.

Fidel Castro     (more by this author)

1926-2008 (Age at death: 82 approx.)

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He is currently the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. Castro was born into a wealthy family and acquired a law degree. While studying at Havana University, he began his political career and became a recognized figure in Cuban politics. His political career continued with nationalist critiques of Fulgencio Batista, and of the United States' political and corporate influence in Cuba. He gained an ardent, but limited, following and also drew the attention of the authorities. He eventually led the failed 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, after which he was captured, tried, incarcerated, and later released. He then traveled to Mexico to organize and train for an assault on Batista's Cuba. He and his fellow revolutionaries left Mexico for the East of Cuba in December 1956.

Author Information from Wikipedia

Country: Cuba

Type: Prose
Context: Unknown
Context Details: The title of Castro's long speech made upon being sentenced to prison in Cuba for leading the attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago in 1953. In the speech Castro quoted John Locke, to the effect that the only remedy against a government which uses ar