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 CASTROMore than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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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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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.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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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.
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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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