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.
FIDEL CASTROEveryone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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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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The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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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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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 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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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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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 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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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