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Fidel Castro

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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Failure Socialism Success Talk
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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Myself Reach Short Speech Talk
How can we help President Obama?
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Help President
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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Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
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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Leadership Safety Thinking
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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Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
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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exchange Maintain Negotiate Power
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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Greatness Ideas Mass Weapon
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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Life Live Man Moments Thinking Weakness
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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Capacity Capital Moral Poverty Problem Solve
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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Ideas Serious System World
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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Economics Hungry Kill Man Trial War
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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Agreement Belief Communalism Democracy Freedom Ideas Religion
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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Government Nation People
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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Benefit Company People Revenue
So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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Communalism Organizatiom
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Extraordinary God Ideas Myself
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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Criticism Revolution
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Destiny Man Production Time
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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History Myself
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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Myself People Religion Social Vision
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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Myself Power Thinking Weapon Willing
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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Change Medicine Religious Social Wonderful
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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Attendance Doctor Enough Planet
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Discover Enough Finding Man Myself Politics Theory
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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Freedom Liberty Myself
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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People Plain Possible Strong

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