I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
FIDEL CASTROThere is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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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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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.
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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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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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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 are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
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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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