The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
FIDEL CASTROIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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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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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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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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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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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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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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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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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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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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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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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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