Fidel Castro Quotes
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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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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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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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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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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I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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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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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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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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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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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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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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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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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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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 revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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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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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 kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
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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.
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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.