We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
FIDEL CASTROMen do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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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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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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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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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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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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