A revolution isn't a bed of roses: Fidel Castro's top quotes

During a speech commemorating the second anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in 1961, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro said, "A revolution is not a bed of roses". "A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past", Castro further said. Castro had planned the revolution to overthrow Cuba's US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista along with Argentinian Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.