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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.

Fidel Castro

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

Democracy Government Revolution
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communism Economy Planning Representation
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

Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
FIDEL CASTRO

Responsibility Revolution
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Live People Suffering
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
FIDEL CASTRO

Expression Ideas Intention Revolution
I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
FIDEL CASTRO

Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cry Mom Promise
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Competition Finding Hypocrisy
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
FIDEL CASTRO

Belief Revolution Share University
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
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
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
FIDEL CASTRO

Acceptance Aspiration Cheif Commander State
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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Equity Establishment Order Peace World
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
Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
FIDEL CASTRO

Agreement Belief Communalism Democracy Freedom Ideas Religion

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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