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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

Fidel Castro

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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Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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Criticism Revolution
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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Athlete Discourage Goodness Inspirational Known Sports Tired Victory
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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Age Mindset Myself People Poet
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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History Myself
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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Communist Moments Myself Revolution
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
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Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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Greatness History Humanity Myself Revolution
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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Ideas Serious System World
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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Agreement Fall Fear Throw
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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Equity Establishment Order Peace World
Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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Cleaning Education Prostitute World
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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Hungry Ignorance Wealth Weapon
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Compare Tragedy
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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Modeling Ourselves Work
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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Belief Greatness Ourselves Prostitute
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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Discover Enough Finding Man Myself Politics Theory
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Communism Economy Planning Representation
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Destiny Man Production Time
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Capitalism Money Social Throw
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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Believe Relative Young
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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Bed Past Revolution Rose Struggle
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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Myself People Religion Social Vision
I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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Imperialism Launch People Propose Revolution Sacrifice Victory World
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Compare Existence Live Ourselves
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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exchange Maintain Negotiate Power
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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Hungry Live People Suffering

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