Fidel Castro Quotes
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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.
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... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!
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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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Fidel Castro
- Born: August 13, 1926
- Died: November 25, 2016
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of Cuba
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