Fidel Castro

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

― Fidel Castro (1926-2016)

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

― Fidel Castro (1926-2016)

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

― Fidel Castro (1926-2016)

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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 (1926-2016)

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

― Fidel Castro (1926-2016)

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"Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient."

― Fidel Castro (1926-2016)

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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, illness, poverty or hunger.”

― Fidel Castro (1926-2016)

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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 (1926-2016)

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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 (1926-2016)

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"Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet."

― Fidel Castro (1926-2016)