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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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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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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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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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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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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North Americans don’t understand that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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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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If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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