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We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states.

Che Guevara

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Che Guevara
Age: 39 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 9
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Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
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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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To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.
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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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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.
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Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
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Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.
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We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.
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Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
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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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There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
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We feel that there is a necessity to strengthen unity and that it will be strengthened and the bloc, the monolithic bloc of socialist countries will be formed again.
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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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Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression.
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Our attitude is very clear. In effect there is the conflict, ideological conflict which we all know. We have stated our position in the sense of unity among socialist states - unity as a first measure.
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Words without deeds are worthless.
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A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.
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