There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
FIDEL CASTROI’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it’s my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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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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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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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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This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
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There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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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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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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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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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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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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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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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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
FIDEL CASTRO