Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTROMy 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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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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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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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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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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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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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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