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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

Fidel Castro

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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Failure Socialism Success Talk
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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Country Heaven Hell Sense Spiritual Survive
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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Democracy Election Government Revolution Time
I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
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Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Country Humanity Understand
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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Capitalism Competition Finding Hypocrisy
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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Myself Reach Short Speech Talk
So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
FIDEL CASTRO

Communalism Organizatiom
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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Age Mindset Myself People Poet
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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Imperialism Launch People Propose Revolution Sacrifice Victory World
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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exchange Maintain Negotiate Power
Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
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Body Human Imagination
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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Peace Possible Transition
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
FIDEL CASTRO

Faith Inspirational Planning Small Yourself
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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Doubt Enemy Establishment Freedom Media

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