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• A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising.

  Fidel Castro

  Years, Shoes, Ideas

  Fidel Castro (2002). “War, Racism and Economic Injustice: The Global Ravages of Capitalism”, Ocean Press (AU)

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• When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

  Fidel Castro

  Girl, Father, Boys

  "The Atheist's Bible". Book by Joan Konner, 2007.

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• The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration.

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  Morning, Frustration, People

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• The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

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  Change, Revolution, Revolutionary

  Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro (2008). “Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography”, p.639, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Christian, People, Vision

  Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro (2008). “Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

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  Bed Of Roses, Rose, Bed

  Fidel Castro's remarks in 1959, as quoted in "'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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• This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

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  Spiritual, Country, Heaven

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• I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

  Fidel Castro

  Thinking, Boots, Duty

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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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  Fake People, War, Hypocrisy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Fidel Castro's letter from prison, December 19, 1953.

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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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  Neoliberalism, Becoming, Rich

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

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  Cuba, World, Educated

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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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  Sacrifice, People, Victory

  "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike". The New York Times, October 23, 1992.

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• The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

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  Ignorance, Mean, Competition

  "Made in the World". www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2012.

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• If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

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  Religious, Struggle, Medicine

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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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  War, Gun, Thinking

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

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• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

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  Justice, Democracy, Communism

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

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• There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

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  Doctors, Care, Enough

  "The Heroes of Our Time" by Fidel Castro, www.globalresearch.ca. October 7, 2014.

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• I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

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  Speech, Should, Late

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

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  Cold War, American Capitalism, Capitalism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

  Fidel Castro

  Yoga, Imagination, Doe

  "Fidel Castro stretches for a commentary topic - yoga" by Patrick Oppmann, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2012.

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• The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

  Fidel Castro

  College, Belief, Revolutionary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Government, America

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