North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTROIf people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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