The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTROThe Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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I 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.
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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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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 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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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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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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