Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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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 are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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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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