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We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

Fidel Castro

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
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
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
FIDEL CASTRO

Competition Greatness Ignorance
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
FIDEL CASTRO

Communism Economy Planning Representation
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
FIDEL CASTRO

Criticism Revolution
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
FIDEL CASTRO

Greatness Ideas Mass Weapon
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
FIDEL CASTRO

Economics Hungry Kill Man Trial War
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
FIDEL CASTRO

Constitute Existence History World
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
FIDEL CASTRO

Compare Tragedy
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Power Thinking Weapon Willing
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.
FIDEL CASTRO

Hungry Kill People Planet Poverty War World
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
FIDEL CASTRO

Clothing Culture Food Knowledge Life
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
FIDEL CASTRO

End Ideas Important Revolution Sentiment Virtue Warfare
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
FIDEL CASTRO

Believe Relative Young
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
The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
FIDEL CASTRO

Modeling Ourselves Work

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