There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
FIDEL CASTROThe Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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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 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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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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 think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
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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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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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