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.
FIDEL CASTRONorth Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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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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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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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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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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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 promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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