Che Guevara Quotes
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While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.
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Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country.
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The great multitudes continue to develop; the new ideas continue to attain their proper force within society; the material possibilities for the full development of all members of society make the task much more fruitful. The present is a time for struggle; the future is ours.
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The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
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Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.
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We do assert, however, that we must follow the road of liberation even though it may cost millions of nuclear war victims. In the struggle to death between two systems we cannot think of anything but the final victory of socialism or its relapse as a consequence of the nuclear victory of imperialist aggression.
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To die under the flag of Vietnam, of Venezuela, of Guatemala, of Laos, of Guinea, of Colombia, of Bolivia, of Brazil - to name only a few scenes of today's armed struggle - would be equally glorious and desirable for an American, an Asian, an African, even a European.
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Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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The people are weary of being oppressed, persecuted, exploited to the maximum. They are weary of the wretched selling of their labor-power day after day - faced with the fear of joining the enormous mass of unemployed - so that the greatest profit can be wrung from each human body, profit later squandered in the orgies of the masters of capital.
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I leave a people who received me as a son. That wounds a part of my spirit. I carry to new battlefronts the faith that you taught me, the revolutionary spirit of my people, the feeling of fulfilling the most sacred of duties: to fight against imperialism wherever it may be.
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I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
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Your father has been a man who acted according to his beliefs and certainly has been faithful to his convictions.
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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves.
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The victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves under the very fangs of the monster.
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Until always, little children. I still hope to see you again. A really big kiss and a hug from Papa.
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It is possible that this may be the end. I don't seek it, but it's within the logical realms of probabilities. If it should be so, I send you a final embrace.
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The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Education should be the daily bread of the people of Cuba.
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It is not a matter of how many kilograms of meat one has to eat, or of how many times a year someone can go to the beach, or how many pretty things from abroad you might be able to buy with present-day wages. It is a matter of making the individual feel more complete, with much more inner wealth and much more responsibility.
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Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
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Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am... only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
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I feel that I have fulfilled the part of my duty that tied me to the Cuban revolution in its territory, and I say farewell to you, to the comrades, to your people, who now are mine.
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Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.
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The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.