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

— Che Guevara On the Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

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

This epic before us is going to be written by the hungry Indian masses, the peasants without land, the exploited workers.

Address to the United Nations (1964)

For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another.

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

On Development (1964)

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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