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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.

Fidel Castro

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.
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Ourselves Politician Politics
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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History Myself
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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Anand Thakur
Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
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Repeat Revolution Virtue
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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Assurance Drive Government Interest Myself Personal Politics
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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Compare Existence Live Ourselves
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
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Democracy Election Government Revolution Time
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
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Expression Ideas Intention Revolution
I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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Doubt Elegant Myself Politics Truth
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol
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.
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Action Beginning Faith Man Planning Revolution Small
We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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Diversity Ethnicity Identity Nation
On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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Avoid Measurement Myself
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?
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Death Social Victim
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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Ideas Serious System World
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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Myself Power Thinking Weapon Willing
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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Believe Relative Young
I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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Ignorance Illiterate Understand
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Capitalism Money Social Throw
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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Agreement Fall Fear Throw
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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Poor Rich Truth
I’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.
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Attachment Death Feeling Myself Responsibility
How can we help President Obama?
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Help President
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
FIDEL CASTRO

Competition Globalization Myself Selection Serious
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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Belief Revolution Share University
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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Courage Experience Man Myself Personality See

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