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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.
The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.
North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?
None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.