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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, illness, poverty or hunger.
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, illness, poverty or hunger.
Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
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- Fidel Castro
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- Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Fidel Castro, based on documented lifetime 1926 to 2016. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11256 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11256 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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