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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

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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Revolutionary
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
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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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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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