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

— Che Guevara Address to the United Nations (1964)

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

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)

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)

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