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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.
Last Letter to his Parents (1965)
The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area. This is an indispensable condition.
Guerrilla Warfare (1961)
War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems in order to achieve the goal.
Guerrilla Warfare (1961)
Let us emphasize that there is not a soldier to be compared to Camilo in this war of liberation.
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
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.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
One must harden without ever losing tenderness.
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
Becoming Che : Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America (2005)
In order to know about the illnesses of society, you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer.
Testimonies About Che (2006)
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.
Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings (1968)
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!
An American Savage (2003)
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
Essential Care : An Ethics of Human Nature (2008)
In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.
Farewell letter to Fidel Castro (1965)
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally, and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always.
Guerrilla Warfare (1961)
I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Capture and Death (1967)
Is it not true that our brotherhood transcends distances, different languages, and the absence of close cultural links, and unites us in the struggle?
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression.
Guerrilla Warfare (1961)