The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTROI am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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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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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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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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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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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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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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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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.
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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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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If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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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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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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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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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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