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Che Guevara on Revolution

1928–1967

← All quotes by Che Guevara

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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

In a revolution, one triumphs or dies (if it is a true revolution).

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.

Farewell letter to Fidel Castro (1965)

There are no other alternatives; either a socialist revolution or a make-believe revolution.

Message to the Tricontinental (1967)

The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he himself left science to shoulder his revolutionary rifle.

Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)

Thanks for Playa Girón. Before the invasion, the (Cuban) revolution was weak. Now it's stronger than ever.

On the Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

We are going to do for blacks what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Che Guevara (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.