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The North American government used the quota system on imports of Cuban sugar not only to protect her own sugar industry, as demanded by her own producers, but also to make possible the unrestricted introduction into our country of North American manufactured goods.
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Now a willpower that I have polished with an artist's delight will sustain some shaky legs and some weary lungs. I will do it. Give a thought once in awhile to this little soldier of fortune of the twentieth century.
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We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer. The skeleton of our complete freedom is already formed. The flesh and the clothing are lacking; we will create them.
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Other nations of the world summon my modest efforts of assistance.
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I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
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Cuba hopes that her children will see a better future, and that victory will not have to be won at the cost of millions of human lives destroyed by the atomic bomb.
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
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The change in consciousness will not take place automatically, just as it doesn't take place automatically in the economy. The alterations are slow and are not harmonious; there are periods of acceleration, pauses and even retrogressions.
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The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area. This is an indispensable condition.
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Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.
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The natural advantages of the cultivation of sugar in Cuba are obvious, but the predominant fact is that Cuba was developed as a sugar factory of the United States.
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The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.
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In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.
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We must agree that the socialist countries are, in a certain way, accomplices of imperialist exploitation … The socialist countries have the moral duty to put an end to their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
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The individual under socialism, despite apparent standardization, is more complete.
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Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
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We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
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As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
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And the imperialists? Will they sit with their arms crossed? No! The system they practice is the cause of the evils from which we are suffering, but they will try to obscure the facts with spurious allegations, of which they are masters.