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It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

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Che Guevara
Age: 39 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 9
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Rosario de Santa Fe
Ernesto Guevara
El Che
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna
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I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
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It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist the insurrection can create them.
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We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.
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I understand that the American people has a right and especially the press, which is not very friendly to us, to make all suppositions and ideas about this fact [suicide by Augusto Martinez] - this disgraced fact.
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
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It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate one must accompany him to his death or to victory
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We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.
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Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.
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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
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One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
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Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.
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I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.
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I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
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The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
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