A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTROIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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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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I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
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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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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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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 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.
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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 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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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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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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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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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