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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.

— Che Guevara Guerrilla Warfare (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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