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 CASTROWe have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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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.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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?
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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