Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
FIDEL CASTROIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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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 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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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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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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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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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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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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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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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