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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
- Materialist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
- Holocaust
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
- Convent
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Jesus Christ
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
- Brightest
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can we help President Obama?
- Each Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
- Concrete
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
- Disappear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
- Exploit
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
- Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
- Economic Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a just man.
- Criminal Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
- Almost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.
- Circular
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defending peace is the duty of all.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
- Adversaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
- Defense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.
- Exploited
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- Nov 07, 2020
For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
- Enslavement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020