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.
FIDEL CASTROI never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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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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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.
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I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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Everyone 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.
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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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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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So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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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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