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.
FIDEL CASTROThe revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.
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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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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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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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The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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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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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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