I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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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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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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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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The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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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.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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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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Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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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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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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