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Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.

— Che Guevara Speech at the University of Las Villas (1959)

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

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