I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
FIDEL CASTROI 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even 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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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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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
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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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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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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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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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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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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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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