The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTROSovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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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.
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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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