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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 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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Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.
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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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.
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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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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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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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... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
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There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
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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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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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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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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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