"Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order."

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Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

Alejandro Castro Espin

#Order Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.”

Source : "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1999). “The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century”, p.4, U of Minnesota Press
“The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.”
“More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.”
“Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.”
“The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.”
“To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.”
“Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.”

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