In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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.
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How can we help President Obama?
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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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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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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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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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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