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It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

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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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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.
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Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
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It's not my fault if reality is Marxist
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This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.
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The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.
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The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.
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The problem of peaceful transition to socialism, we do not discuss it as a theoretical question. But in America it is very difficult, and it is nearly impossible. That is why specifically in America we say that the road to the liberation of peoples, which will be the road of socialism will go through bullets in almost all countries.
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The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.
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Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!
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Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.
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If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.
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It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words.
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I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.
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I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
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The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
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