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Fidel Castro
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: August 13
Died: 2016
Died: November 25
Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
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Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.
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Ideas do not need weapons.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba our country is also humanity.
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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
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It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.
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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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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
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One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
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