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What are our primary goals? Our greatest goals? The great lines we must follow? From the political point of view, the first thing we want is to be masters of our own destiny, a country free from foreign interference, a country that seeks out its own system of development.
Che Guevara
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The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area. This is an indispensable condition.
Che Guevara
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Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.
Che Guevara
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The North American government used the quota system on imports of Cuban sugar not only to protect her own sugar industry, as demanded by her own producers, but also to make possible the unrestricted introduction into our country of North American manufactured goods.
Che Guevara
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We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer. The skeleton of our complete freedom is already formed. The flesh and the clothing are lacking; we will create them.
Che Guevara
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As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
Che Guevara
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The socialist countries must help pay for the development of countries now starting out on the road to liberation.
Che Guevara
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If my final hour finds me under other skies, my last thought will be of this people and especially of you.
Che Guevara
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Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che Guevara
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Cuba hopes that her children will see a better future, and that victory will not have to be won at the cost of millions of human lives destroyed by the atomic bomb.
Che Guevara
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What are needed are the development of an ideological-cultural mechanism which permits both free inquiry and the uprooting of the weeds which multiply so easily in the fertile soil of state subsidies.
Che Guevara
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The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.
Che Guevara
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
Che Guevara
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We must agree that the socialist countries are, in a certain way, accomplices of imperialist exploitation … The socialist countries have the moral duty to put an end to their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
Che Guevara
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I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
Che Guevara
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The individual under socialism, despite apparent standardization, is more complete.
Che Guevara
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Now a willpower that I have polished with an artist's delight will sustain some shaky legs and some weary lungs. I will do it. Give a thought once in awhile to this little soldier of fortune of the twentieth century.
Che Guevara
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The natural advantages of the cultivation of sugar in Cuba are obvious, but the predominant fact is that Cuba was developed as a sugar factory of the United States.
Che Guevara
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In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.
Che Guevara
