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Fidel Castro

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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People Plain Possible Strong
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
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Capitalism Reverse World
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
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
U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.
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Leadership Safety Thinking
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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Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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Constitute Existence History World
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
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Death Future Past Revolution Struggle
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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Change Medicine Religious Social Wonderful
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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Expression Ideas Intention Revolution
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.
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Discover Enough Finding Man Myself Politics Theory
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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Myself Power Thinking Weapon Willing
I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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Myself Thinking
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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Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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Identity Myself Willing
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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Democracy Government Revolution
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
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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Economics Hungry Kill Man Trial War
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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Diversity Ethnicity Identity Nation
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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Modeling Ourselves Work
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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Hungry Kill People Planet Poverty War World
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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Acceptance Aspiration Cheif Commander State
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
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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Extraordinary God Ideas Myself
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

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