Fidel Castro Short Quotes

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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

Fidel Castro
I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

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I am not saying goodbye to you. I only wish to fight as a soldier of ideas.

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We are not only a Latin-American nation; we are an Afro-American nation also.

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Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

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If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

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I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life.

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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.

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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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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

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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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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.

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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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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

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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 truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

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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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