"We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states."
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"I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America."
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"It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them."
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"The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power."
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"In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm."
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"The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese."
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"We feel that there is a necessity to strengthen unity and that it will be strengthened and the bloc, the monolithic bloc of socialist countries will be formed again."
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"Always we argue that unity is necessity because disunity goes in favor of the U.S. , which are our enemy, and everything that goes in favor of the enemy must be eliminated. That is why we are in favor of unity."
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"We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people."
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"We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba. Now if we would sell sugar to the U.S., it would be the Cuban Government the one who would sell it, and it would be a complete profit for our people."
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"Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm."
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"It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression."
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"Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us."
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"Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples."
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"The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West."
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"While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America."
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"One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created."
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"I think with regards to solutions, there are solutions, and I think there is only one. we have said repeatedly to the government of the United States that we do not want anything but to forget us, that they do not consider us even for good or evil."
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"We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government."
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"Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days."
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