I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROThe Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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 am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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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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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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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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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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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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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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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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 don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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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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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 are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
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