I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
FIDEL CASTROI neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
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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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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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 believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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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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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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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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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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