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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.

Fidel Castro

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
FIDEL CASTRO

Repeat Revolution Virtue
I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
FIDEL CASTRO

Identity Myself Willing
We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ourselves Politician Politics
Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.
FIDEL CASTRO

Body Human Imagination
I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
FIDEL CASTRO

Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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History Myself
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Reach Short Speech Talk
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Humanity Understand
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Imperialism Launch People Propose Revolution Sacrifice Victory World
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Discover Enough Finding Man Myself Politics Theory
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
FIDEL CASTRO

Extraordinary God Ideas Myself
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
Today, the entire country is an immense University.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Immense University
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
FIDEL CASTRO

Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
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
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself People Religion Social Vision

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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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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