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.
FIDEL CASTROThe Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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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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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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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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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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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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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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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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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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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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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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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