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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

Fidel Castro

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
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
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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Hungry Live People Suffering
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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Benefit Company People Revenue
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare
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.
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Agreement Fall Fear Throw
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Communism Economy Planning Representation
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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Expression Ideas Intention Revolution
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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Capacity Capital Moral Poverty Problem Solve
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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Courage Experience Man Myself Personality See
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Capitalism Reverse World
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Compare Tragedy
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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Government Nation People
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Exploit Revolution Theory
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.
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Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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Cleaning Education Prostitute World
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.
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Blame Communalism Myself Oppression Thinking
Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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Repeat Revolution Virtue
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
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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Communalism Foreign Myself Power
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
The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
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Poor Rich Truth
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
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
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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Greatness Ideas Mass Weapon
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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Ignorance Illiterate Understand

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since it is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.

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