Fidel Castro Quotes
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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life. What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
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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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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.
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I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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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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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.