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Fidel Castro (1926-2016) Memorial List

Sat Nov 26 08:31:33 EST 2016
By Vocabulary.com (NY)Visual Thesaurus Moderator
Here are twelve quotes from Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader for over 50 years, who died on November 25, 2016 at the age of 90.

Because Castro led a Communist country, and that country was only ninety miles away from the United States, Castro's Cuba was at one time a dire enemy of the United States, resulting in frightening standoffs like the Cuban Missle Crisis, when both countries were at the brink of nuclear war. In recent years, with the collapse of the global Communist threat, tensions between the U.S. and Cuba have eased, with the ban on travel to and the import of goods from Cuba slowly being lifted.
aspire
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
repugnant
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
revenue
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
intervention
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
dialectical
"Dialectical Materialism" is the view of history put forth by Karl Marx and adopted by the communist viewpoint. Dialectical Materialism views history as a series of conflicts and contradictions between forces like social classes or political groups caused by the material needs of the individual groups that Interfere with one another. Examining how these conflicts were resolved tells the story of history, and examining how they might have been resolved provides a lesson to learn for the future.
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
deprecate
With what morality can the [US] leaders talk of human rights in a country where there are millionaires and beggars, where blacks face discrimination, women are prostituted, and great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Latin Americans are deprecated, exploited and humiliated?
endure
Russia and China know the world’s problems much better than the US because they were obliged to endure the terrible wars imposed on them by fascism’s blind egoism. I have no doubt that they, given their historical traditions and revolutionary experience, will make the greatest effort to avoid war and contribute to the peaceful development of Venezuela, Latin America, Asia and Africa
fascism
Russia and China know the world’s problems much better than the US because they were obliged to endure the terrible wars imposed on them by fascism’s blind egoism. I have no doubt that they, given their historical traditions and revolutionary experience, will make the greatest effort to avoid war and contribute to the peaceful development of Venezuela, Latin America, Asia and Africa
pathos
I am nearing 90. I will soon pass away like everyone else. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of Cuban communists are an evidence that, in case if we work with pathos and dignity, we can produce material and cultural values people need.
envisage
I am not interested in power nor do I envisage assuming it at any time. All that I will do is to make sure that the sacrifices of so many compatriots should not be in vain, whatever the future may hold in store for me.
compatriot
I am not interested in power nor do I envisage assuming it at any time. All that I will do is to make sure that the sacrifices of so many compatriots should not be in vain, whatever the future may hold in store for me.
deteriorate
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.

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