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Capitalism is the arsonist of our forests.

— Thomas Sankara

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In these tempestuous times, we can't leave our enemies of the past and the present the monopoly on thought, imagination, and creativity.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

We want to get our army involved with the people in productive work and remind it constantly that, without patriotic training, a soldier is only a criminal with power.

We must choose between champagne for a few or drinking water for all.

The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph.

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Fidel Castro

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