We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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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 revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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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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If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
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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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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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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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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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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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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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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