Fidel Castro

Politician, Revolutionary

Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary leader known for his role in the Cuban Revolution and his establishment of a socialist state.

Born
August 13, 1926
Died
November 25, 2016
Quotes
113
Rank
#205

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"The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."

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"On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures."

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"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World."

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"I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution."

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"Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health."

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"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism."

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"Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world."

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"I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything."

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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."

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"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers."

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"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."

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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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"Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants."

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"It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight."

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"I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun."

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"... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism."

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