Fidel Castro

I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

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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.

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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.

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

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Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

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I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

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Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

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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.

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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.

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

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At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

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

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

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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

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Quotes by Fidel Castro