We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
FIDEL CASTROMy 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.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
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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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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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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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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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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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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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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’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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