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26 quotes by Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (American Spanish: [fiˈðel aleˈxandɾo ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist-Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration the Republic of Cuba became a one-party...
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

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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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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... →

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

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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from... →

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A revolution is not a bed of roses.

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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

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

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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... →

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