I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROWe do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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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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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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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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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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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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Forgive me for using the term ‘fat little brother’. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don’t you think? I’m doing this for the gentleman’s health.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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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