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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Fidel Castro

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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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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.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
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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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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
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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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... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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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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Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!
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