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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

Today, the entire country is an immense University.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Immense University
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
FIDEL CASTRO

Anand Thakur
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
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

Bed Past Revolution Rose Struggle
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
Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cleaning Education Prostitute World
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
FIDEL CASTRO

Greatness Ideas Mass Weapon
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Agreement Fall Fear Throw
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ideas Serious System World
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
FIDEL CASTRO

Beggar Oneself Progress
I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
FIDEL CASTRO

Blame Communalism Myself Oppression Thinking
North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO

Country Humanity Understand
U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
FIDEL CASTRO

Leadership Safety Thinking
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Competition Finding Hypocrisy
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
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

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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