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“Quando ero ragazzino mio padre voleva che io fossi un bravo cattolico e che mi confessassi tutte le volte che avevo pensieri impuri sulle ragazze. Così ogni sera io diventavo rosso a confessare i miei pensieri. Così successe una sera, e poi un'altra sera, e così via. Dopo una settimana decisi che la religione non era fatta per me.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Da Joan Konner, The Atheist's Bible, New York, HarperCollins, 2007, p. 62.

“Condannatemi, non importa, la storia mi assolverà.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Dalla deposizione di Castro al processo per l'assalto alla caserma Moncada. Citato in Breve storia di Cuba http://www.ilpost.it/2014/12/18/cuba/, il Post, 18 dicembre 2014.

“Ricordo sempre il Che come una delle persone più straordinarie, uno degli uomini più nobili e disinteressati che io abbia mai conosciuto.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Autobiografia a due voci, p. 556

“[Nelson Mandela] Lo ammiro molto per i suoi meriti, la sua storia, la sua lotta.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Autobiografia a due voci, p. 556

“Berlusconi è un pagliaccio: sarebbe stato più giusto se si fosse chiamato "Burlesconi". È un personaggio da ridere e Mussolini era come lui!”

Fidel Castro

da Centinaia di migliaia di cubani in piazza contro Italia e Spagna, la Repubblica, 12 giugno 2003

“Credo che Kennedy fosse un uomo pieno di entusiasmo, molto intelligente, con un carisma innato, che cercava sempre di fare cose positive. Commise degli errori […], anche di tipo etico, ritengo però che sia stato un uomo coraggioso capace di correggersi e abbastanza coraggioso da introdurre cambiamenti nella politica degli Stati Uniti.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Autobiografia a due voci, p. 557

Frasi sul mondo di Fidel Castro

“Ho ammirato De Gaulle, sebbene i nostri rapporti non fossero molto buoni a causa della guerra anticoloniale in Algeria, che noi sostenevamo. Come militare ebbe delle qualità, poiché ebbe l'idea di creare le divisioni blindate. Ammiro inoltre la sua ribellione intransigente nei confronti degli Stati Uniti, degli inglesi e del resto del mondo.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Autobiografia a due voci, p. 560

“La Cina è diventata la più promettente speranza e il miglior esempio per tutti i paesi del Terzo Mondo.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Da La cina rossa http://www.lacinarossa.net/?p=363.

“Non c'è nulla di paragonabile alla Shoah. […] Nessuno al mondo ha ricevuto lo stesso trattamento riservato agli ebrei, sempre accusati di ogni male. Essi hanno condotto un'esistenza molto più difficile di chiunque altro.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Citato in Daniel Mosseri, Fidel Castro non smette di sorprendere http://www.shalom.it/J/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=992&Itemid=116, Shalom.it.

“Non possiamo ignorare Hiroshima e Nagasaki, con l'impiego non necessario di armi nucleari, impiego assolutamente non necessario e che, in ogni caso, potevano essere utilizzate contro alcune installazioni militari e che caddero sopra popolazioni civili di centinaia di migliaia di abitanti, per instaurare l'era del terrore atomico nel mondo.”

Fidel Castro

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“[Slobodan Milošević] Dirigente disastroso, nazionalista, razzista, corrotto, che si basava solo sull'uso della forza.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Autobiografia a due voci, p. 531

Sul disastro

“Per non lottare ci saranno sempre moltissimi pretesti in ogni epoca e in ogni circostanza, ma mai, senza lotta, si potrà avere la libertà.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Da Un'introduzione necessaria, prefazione a Che Guevara, Diario del Che in Bolivia http://books.google.it/books?id=Qp3oj8qDjqEC&pg=PA17&dq=Per+non+lottare+ci+saranno+sempre+moltissimi+pretesti&hl=it&sa=X&ei=_TQcUYqmK6qc0AX2j4AI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Per%20non%20lottare%20ci%20saranno%20sempre%20moltissimi%20pretesti&f=false, traduzione di M. C. R. e G. F., Feltrinelli, 2005 (1968). ISBN 9788807830013

La libertà

“Noi desideravamo la vittoria di Felipe perché, pur con tutti i suoi difetti, era una persona con cui si poteva discutere, mantenere rapporti formalmente corretti. Ma quando divenne capo del governo, qualcosa cambiò […]. Tutti sanno cosa è successo, che cosa è successo in Spagna durante il governo di Felipe Gonzales: corruzione, gente che ha fatto i miliardi arricchendosi con beni d'ogni genere. Ci furono insomma un arricchimento e una corruzione generalizzati, con conseguente decadenza morale.”

Fidel Castro

pagg. 465-467
Autobiografia a due voci

Successo , Vittoria

“[José María Aznar] Un robot, una macchina che immagazzinava una serie di dati e di cifre. Mi resi conti della tattica di Aznar, della sua psicologia, del suo modo di attaccare, di accusare, di ripetere le cose come un automa. È molto meno colto di Gonzales. Con noi è stato meno dignitoso di Francisco Franco.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Autobiografia a due voci, p. 466

Macchine , Modo

“Noi socialisti abbiamo commesso un errore nel sottovalutare la forza del nazionalismo e della religione.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Da Socialismo e Comunismo: un processo unico, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1969.

Sulla religione , Errore

“Il processo rivoluzionario è intrinsecamente il miglior programma di sanità pubblica possibile.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 91, p. 188.

“Menghistu mi sembra un leader silenzioso, serio e sincero, consapevole del potere della folla.”

Fidel Castro

Variante: Menghistu mi sembra un leader silenzioso, serio e sincero, consapevole del potere delle masse.

“Il capitalismo è un sistema che si regge su leggi cieche, distruttive e tiranniche imposte alla specie umana.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Dal discorso pronunciato il 10 novembre 2007; citato in http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2007/ita/f101107t.html, Cuba.cu.

Sulle leggi

“Ho Chi Minh fu, è e sarà esempio eterno.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Dal discorso pronunciato durante l'assunzione alla carica, 6 marzo 2003; citato in http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2003/ita/f060303t.html, Cuba.cu.

“[Jiang Zemin] Lo apprezzo particolarmente, lo ritengo una persona capace.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Autobiografia a due voci, p. 556

Sulla pace

“[Saddam Hussein] Un disastro. Uno stratega eccentrico. E crudele verso il suo popolo.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Autobiografia a due voci, p. 521

Sul disastro

“Aznar è un damerino ed un codardo infarcito di idee nazi-fasciste.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Da Centinaia di migliaia di cubani in piazza contro Italia e Spagna http://www.repubblica.it/online/esteri/traghettocuba/manifestazioni/manifestazioni.html, la Repubblica, 12 giugno 2003.

“Le idee non hanno bisogno di armi, se sono in grado di convincere le grandi masse.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Da lanic.utexas.edu http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1985/19850804, 3 agosto 1985.

“Lei crede in Amnesty International?!… Beh, è libero di farlo. Io non ci credo: rispetti almeno questo mio pensiero.”

Fidel Castro

Origine: Intervistato dal regista Oliver Stone in Looking for Fidel.

Pensiero

“Una deviazione di questa natura si scontra con il concetto che noi abbiamo di come dev’essere un militante comunista.. nessuno ci convincerà mai che un omosessuale possa avere in sé le condizioni e le esigenze di condotta che ne potrebbero fare un vero Rivoluzionario, un vero Comunista militante.”

Fidel Castro

Natura

“Siad Barre è un generale che fu educato sotto il colonialismo. La rivoluzione in Somalia è capeggiata da generali che divennero potenti durante l'era coloniale. Ho formato la mia opinione su Siad Barre; è inanzitutto uno sciovinista. Lo sciovinismo è il suo tratto più importante. Il socialismo è semplicemente una maschera per renderlo più attraente.”

Fidel Castro

“Marx e Lenin costituiscono precisamente quelle due personalità umane che segneranno il passaggio dalla preistoria alla storia dell'umanità.”

Fidel Castro

Storia , Personalità

“Quando ci sono problemi in alcuni luoghi non è che il marxismo-leninismo manchi di forza invincibile, è che non si sono applicati correttamente i principi del marxismo-leninismo.”

Fidel Castro

Originale: (es) Cuando hay problemas en algún lugar no es que el marxismo-leninismo carezca de invencible fuerza, es que no se han aplicado correctamente los principios del marxismo-leninismo.

Source: Dal discorso pronunciato il 27 dicembre 1980; citato in html http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1980/esp/f271280e., Cuba.cu.

Problema

“La scienza del marxismo-leninismo illumina il cammino del nostro popolo. Studiamo, studiamo il marxismo-leninismo sempre meglio!”

Fidel Castro

Originale: (es) Ilumina el camino de nuestro pueblo la ciencia del marxismo-leninismo. ¡Estudiemos, estudiemos cada vez mejor el marxismo-leninismo!

Source: Dal discorso pronunciato al Teatro Chaplin, 19 marzo 1962; citato in http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1962/esp/f190362e.html, Cuba.cu.

Scienza

“La figura di Lenin è un gigante nella storia e le sue idee luminose rappresentano il patrimonio comune dei combattenti rivoluzionari in tutti gli angoli della terra.”

Fidel Castro

Originale: (es) La figura de Lenin se agiganta ante la historia y sus ideas luminosas se convierten en el patrimonio común de los luchadores revolucionarios en todos los rincones de la tierra.

Source: Dal discorso pronunciato il 22 dicembre 1972; citato in http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1972/esp/f221272e.html, Cuba.cu.

Storia

“Il marxismo-leninismo è in definitiva profondamente internazionalista e, al tempo stesso, profondamente patriottico.”

Fidel Castro

Originale: (es) El marxismo-leninismo es en definitiva profundamente internacionalista, y a la vez, profundamente patriótico.

Source: Dal discorso pronunciato al teatro Carlo Marx, 2 dicembre 1976; citato in http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1976/esp/f021276e.html, Cuba.cu.

Tempo

“Il capitalismo produce bestie, il socialismo produce uomini.”

Fidel Castro

Originale: (es) El capitalismo produce fieras, el socialismo produce hombres.

Source: Dal discorso pronunciato il 22 dicembre 1991; citato in http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1991/esp/f221291e.html, Cuba.cu.

Sugli uomini

“Crediamo che il marxismo-leninismo sia una verità incontrastabile.”

Fidel Castro

Creemos que el marxismo-leninismo es una verdad incontrastable.

Source: Dal discorso pronunciato alla scalinata dell'Università dell'Avana, 13 marzo 1962; citato in http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1962/esp/f130362e.html, Cuba.cu.

Sulla verità

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“L'uomo nasce egocentrico, il risultato del condizionamento della natura. La natura ci riempie di istinti; è l'educazione che ci riempie di virtù.”

Fidel Castro

Natura

Fidel Castro: Frasi in inglese

“Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues.”

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University of Havana address (2005)
Contesto: Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues. Nature makes us do things instinctively; one of these is the instinct for survival which can lead to infamy, while on the other side, our conscience can lead us to great acts of heroism. It doesn’t matter what each one of us is like, how different we are from each other, but when we unite we become one.
It is amazing that in spite of the differences between human beings, they can become as one in a single instant or they can be millions, and they can be a million strong just through their ideas. Nobody followed the Revolution as a cult to anyone or because they felt personal sympathy with any one person. It is only by embracing certain values and ideas that an entire people can develop the same willingness to make sacrifices of any one of those who loyally and sincerely try to lead them toward their destiny.

“Here is a conclusion I’ve come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we believed that someone really knew something about socialism, or that someone actually knew how to build socialism.”

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University of Havana address (2005)
Contesto: Here is a conclusion I’ve come to after many years: among all the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we believed that someone really knew something about socialism, or that someone actually knew how to build socialism. It seemed to be a sure fact, as well-known as the electrical system conceived by those who thought they were experts in electrical systems. Whenever they said: “That’s the formula”, we thought they knew. Just as if someone is a physician. You are not going to debate anemia, or intestinal problems, or any other condition with a physician; nobody argues with the physician. You can think that he is a good doctor or a bad one, you can follow his advice or not, but you won’t argue with him. Which of us would argue with a doctor, or a mathematician, or a historian, or an expert in literature or in any other subject? But we must be idiots if we think, for example, that economy is an exact and eternal science and that it existed since the days of Adam and Eve, and I offer my apologies to the thousands of economists in our country.

“After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.”

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As quoted in The Atheist's Bible (2007) edited by Joan Konner, p. 62
Contesto: When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

“I would dare say that today this species is facing a very real and true danger of extinction, and no one can be sure, listen to this well, no one can be sure that it will survive this danger.”

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University of Havana address (2005)
Contesto: I would dare say that today this species is facing a very real and true danger of extinction, and no one can be sure, listen to this well, no one can be sure that it will survive this danger.
Well, the fact that the species would not survive was discussed about 2,000 years ago. I remember that when I was a student I heard of the Apocalypse, a book of prophesy in the Bible. Apparently, 2000 years ago someone realized that this weak species could one day disappear.

“I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger.”

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Letter from prison (19 December 1953)
Contesto: I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

“The revolution cannot seek to stifle art or culture since one of the goals and fundamental aims of the revolution is to develop art and culture, precisely so that art and culture truly become the patrimony of the people.”

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Words to Intellectuals (1961)

“You have the opportunity to be more than spectators, you can be actors in the revolution, writing about it, expressing yourselves about it. And the generations to come, what will they ask of you? You might produce magnificent artistic works from a technical point of view, but if you were to tell someone from the future generation, 100 years from bow, that a writer, an intellectual, lived in the era of the revolution and did not write about the revolution, and was not a part of the revolution, it would be difficult for a person in the future to understand this. In the years to come there will be so many people who will want to paint about the revolution, to write about the the revolution, to express themselves on the revolution, compiling data an information in order to know what it was like, what happened, how we used to live.”

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Fidel Castro Reader, pp. 238
Words to Intellectuals (1961)

“Capitalism—and I say it with such gusto—capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.”

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Comments on Latin American Debt (15 September 1985) http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1985/19850915
Contesto: Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.… Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism—and I say it with such gusto—capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.

“Revolution is the sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that must be changed”

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As quoted in Speech by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the mass rally called by the Cuban youths, students and workers on the occasion of the International Labor Day at the Revolution Square http://www.fidelcastro.cu/en/discursos/speech-mass-rally-called-cuban-youths-students-and-workers-revolution-square-occasion (May 1, 2000)
Contesto: Revolution is the sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that must be changed; it is full equality and freedom; it is being treated and treating others like human beings; it is emancipating ourselves, by ourselves and with our very own efforts; it is challenging the dominant powerful forces within and outside of the social and national arena; it is defending the values one believes in at the cost of any sacrifice; it is modesty, selflessness, altruism, solidarity and heroism; it is fighting with audacity, intelligence and realism; it is never telling a lie or violating ethical principles; it is the profound conviction that there is no force on earth that can crush truth and ideas. Revolution is unity, it is independence, it is fighting for our dreams of justice for Cuba and the world that is the basis of our patriotism, our socialism and our internationalism.

“It is amazing that in spite of the differences between human beings, they can become as one in a single instant or they can be millions, and they can be a million strong just through their ideas.”

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“All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes that today’s economy is identical to the economy 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived.”

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University of Havana address (2005)
Contesto: All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes that today’s economy is identical to the economy 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived. Revisionism is a thousand miles away from my mind and I truly revere Marx, Engels and Lenin.

“The important thing is the revolution!”

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Speech at the memorial service http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1967/esp/f181067e.html of Che Guevara (8 October 1967)
Contesto: Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

“A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.”

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Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution (2 January 1961) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1961/esp/f020161e.html

“As I have said before, 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, illnesses, poverty or hunger.”

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Speech at the International Conference on Financing for Development (March 2002) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2002/ing/f210302i.html

“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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“… quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.”

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Origine: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

“All reactionary classes in all historical epochs, when the antagonism between exploiters and exploited reaches its highest peak, presaging the arrival of a new social regime, have turned to the worst weapons of repression and calumny against their adversaries.”

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The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)

“Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.”

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Original Spanish: "Compañeros obreros y campesinos, esta es la Revolución socialista y democrática de los humildes, con los humildes y para los humildes. Y por esta Revolución de los humildes, por los humildes y para los humildes estamos dispuestos a dar la vida."
On 16 April 1961, in a funeral oration in Vedado for victims of the air raids the day before, Fidel Castro referring to the January 1959 Cuban Revolution. Quoted in José Ramón Fernández. 2001. Playa Giron/Bay of Pigs: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas, p. 56

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The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)

“In other words: Within the revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing. Against the revolution, nothing, because the revolution also has its rights, and the first right of the revolution is the right to exist, and no one can oppose the revolution's right to exist. Inasmuch as the revolution embodies the interests of the people, inasmuch as the revolution symbolizes the interests of the whole naion, no one can justly claim a right to oppose it.”

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Words to Intellectuals (1961)

“We are united in our determination to change the present system of international relations, based as it is on injustice, inequality and oppression. In international politics we act as an independent world force.”

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On Behalf of the Movement of Nonaligned Countries (1979)

“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 as proof on this planet that if they are worked at with fervor and dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that human beings need, and we need to fight without a truce to obtain them.”

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Speech after Raul was re-elected as head of the Communist party http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fidel-castro-gives-speech-saying-hes-nearing-the-end-of-his-life/

“I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life.”

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Speech on the anniversary of the Granma landing (2 December 1961)
Variant translation: I am a Marxist-Leninist and will be one until the day I die.
As quoted in "Chavez Would Abolish Presidential Term Limit" in The Washington Post (11 January 2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011000468.html

“Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.”

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History Will Absolve Me (1954) http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm, a summary of arguments Castro made in the trial of the Moncada Barracks attack

“Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.)”

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Speech at the Conference on Foreign Debt in Latin America and the Caribbean (3 August 1985) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1985/esp/f030885e.html

“Our conclusion is that the compañeros of the National Council of Culture are as concerned as all of you are about achieving the best conditions for the development of creative work by artists and intellectuals. It is the duty of the revolution and the revolutionary government to see that there is a highly qualified agency that can be relied upon to stimulate, encourage, develop and guide - yes, guide - that creative spirit.”

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Words to Intellectuals (1961)

“Weapons for what? (¿Armas, para qué?) To fight against whom? Against the revolutionary government, that has the support of the whole people? … Weapons for what? Hiding weapons for what? To blackmail the President of the Republic? To threaten to break the peace here? To create organizations of gangsters? Is it that we are going to return to gangsterism? Is it that we will return to daily shootouts in the capital? Weapons for what?”

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Speech in Havana (8 January 1959) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1959/esp/f080159e.html

“Scorn relations with the imperialist Government of the United States, a Government of genocide and decadence
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We have supported, we are supporting and we shall support revolutionary movements in Latin America.
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We feel very well outside the O. A. S., in fact better than inside. The O. A. S. is an organization that is bound to disappear.”

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19 April 1971 in Havana, according to 20 April 1971 New York Times article https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/20/archives/castro-rejects-new-ties-to-us-premier-in-havana-speech-also.html