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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis... discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

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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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven by a wish to be in the government since [it] is for us the least attractive work, even though we are politicians.
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It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
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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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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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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 nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
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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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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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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution
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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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We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?
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