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"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
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"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."

"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."

"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."

"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."

"A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over."

"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."

"In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet."

"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
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"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious."

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity."
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