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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.

Fidel Castro

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cry Mom Promise
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Discover Enough Finding Man Myself Politics Theory
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Foreign Myself Power
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communism Economy Planning Representation
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Doubt Enemy Establishment Freedom Media
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
FIDEL CASTRO

Anand Thakur
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
FIDEL CASTRO

Democracy Government Revolution
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?
FIDEL CASTRO

Death Social Victim
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Humanity Understand
A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country End Factory Industry Interest Policy Price Smart
I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
FIDEL CASTRO

Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

People Plain Possible Strong
There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
FIDEL CASTRO

Failure Socialism Success Talk
Ideas do not need weapons.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ideas One Liner Weapon
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Life Live Man Moments Thinking Weakness

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