Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me."
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Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba."
Raul Castro
Politician
"I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it."
Hugo Chavez
Politician
"But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy."
Andy Garcia
Actor, Director
"She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most."
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"Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world."
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"The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever."
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"Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief."
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"You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse."
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"In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be."
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"What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists."
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"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity."
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"A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place."
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"What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism."
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"My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked."
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"Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now."
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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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"My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be."
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"There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!"
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"Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds."
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"I think it's wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America."
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"Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that."
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"It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it."
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"Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba."
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"One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]"
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