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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.

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
Journalist
Lawyer
Partisan
Politician
Revolutionary
Statesperson
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Castro
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Truth
Years
Elegantly

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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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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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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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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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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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We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.
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Today, the entire country is an immense University.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
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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 am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
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Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
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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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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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... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
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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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We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
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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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On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.
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