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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.
-Fidel Castro
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
-Fidel Castro
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Communism
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I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.
-Fidel Castro, Speech, Chile, November 18, 1971
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Criticism
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All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
-Fidel Castro, in John Newhouse, Socialism of Death, The New Yorker, 1992.
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Economics
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
-Fidel Castro
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Fate & Destiny
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
-Fidel Castro
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Government
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'No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
-Fidel Castro
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Religion
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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, "The Economist", August 27, 1997
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Revolution
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The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
-Fidel Castro
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
-Fidel Castro, Speech on the 2nd anniversary of Revolution, Havana, January, 1961
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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
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Speeches (oratory)
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
known for his three-hour speeches, reportedly shortened them to not more than 90 minutes
-Fidel Castro
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Struggle
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I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. 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.
-Fidel Castro, letter Carlos Franqui, Diary of the Cuban Revolution, p. 67 (1980), December 19, 1953
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Books by and about Fidel Castro