The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
FIDEL CASTROI never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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How can we help President Obama?
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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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 existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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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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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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