Fidel Castro Quotes

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  I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  Fidel Castro

  Military, Men, History

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1959

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  Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

  Fidel Castro

  Poverty, Ethics, Morality

  "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

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• It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Have Faith, Matter

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1959

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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.

  Fidel Castro

  Children, Years, Luxury

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

  Fidel Castro

  Doubt, Enemy, Firsts

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  We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

  Fidel Castro

  Order, Justice, World

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

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Cuba, Matter

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.105, Ocean Press

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• With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, War, Men

  Fidel Castro's speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack, July 26, 1978.

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  One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

  Fidel Castro

  College, Benefits, Revolution

  "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

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

  Fidel Castro

  Winning, Gold, Events

  "Fidel Castro survived 600 assassination attempts, officials say" by Patrick Oppmann, www.cnn.com. November 26, 2016.

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• Ideas do not need weapons.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, Needs, Weapons

  Fidel Castro's speech at the Conference on Foreign Debt in Latin America and the Caribbean, August 3, 1985.

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• I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

  Fidel Castro

  Christian, Jesus, Humanity

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• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  Fidel Castro

  Struggle, Past, Revolution

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Fidel Castro

  Lying, Quality, Culture

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• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Reality, Eugenics

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!

  Fidel Castro

  Children, Heart, Men

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• Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

  Fidel Castro

  Success, Athlete, Victory

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• We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

  Fidel Castro

  Revolution, Politician, Made

  1961 Speech on assuming the presidency, two years after overthrowing the Batista regime.

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• No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

  Fidel Castro

  Government, People, Nations

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• Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

  Fidel Castro

  Cuba, World, Educated

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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.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Gun, Thinking

  "I Won't Be a Dictator". Interview with Ruth Lloyd, January 1959.

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• I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Lasts, Cold

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  Fidel Castro

  Fake People, War, Hypocrisy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

  Fidel Castro

  Ignorance, Weapons, Poverty

  Fidel Castro's speech at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, www.cuba.cu. March 21, 2002.

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• We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  Fidel Castro

  Military, Politics, Revolution

  "With Fidel: A portrait of Castro and Cuba". Book by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, 1975.

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