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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
FIDEL CASTRO

History Myself
I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.
FIDEL CASTRO

Follow Victim
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 CASTRO

People Plain Possible Strong
Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
FIDEL CASTRO

Cleaning Education Prostitute World
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol
Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
FIDEL CASTRO

Repeat Revolution Virtue
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
FIDEL CASTRO

exchange Maintain Negotiate Power
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Ignorance Wealth Weapon
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communist Moments Myself Revolution
I don’t think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It’s the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Capitalism Existence Social System Thinking War
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRO

Destiny Man Production Time
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Poor Rich Truth
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Reach Short Speech Talk
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
FIDEL CASTRO

Expression Ideas Intention Revolution
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
FIDEL CASTRO

Anand Thakur
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
FIDEL CASTRO

Equity Establishment Order Peace World

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