Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTRONorth Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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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.
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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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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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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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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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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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The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
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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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