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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.

Fidel Castro

I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
FIDEL CASTRO

Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
FIDEL CASTRO

Believe Relative Young
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Blame Communalism Myself Oppression Thinking
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capacity Capital Moral Poverty Problem Solve
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself People Religion Social Vision
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Heaven Hell Sense Spiritual Survive
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Humanity Understand
Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
FIDEL CASTRO

Body Human Imagination
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
FIDEL CASTRO

Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Organizatiom
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 CASTRO

Age Mindset Myself People Poet
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
FIDEL CASTRO

Follow Victim
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTRO

Modeling Ourselves Work
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
FIDEL CASTRO

Peace Possible Transition
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
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
FIDEL CASTRO

Diversity Ethnicity Identity Nation

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