CHE GUEVARA’ s

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

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

“Every day you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.”

“Let’s be realistic. Let’s do the impossible!”

“If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.”

“The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.”

“I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”

“It’s not my fault if reality is Marxist.”

“Words that do not match deeds are not important.”

“Let the world change you and you can change the world.”

“Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.”

“We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.”

“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”

“Every day people straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”

“To accomplish much you must first lose everything.”

“Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!”

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

“Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.”

“Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.”

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”

“Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.”

“The best form of saying is being.”

“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”

“Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.”

“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”

“A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.”

“We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.”

“And then many things became very clear… we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”

“The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.”

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.”

“The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.”

“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.”

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”

“Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.”

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!”

“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”

“What are our primary goals? Our greatest goals? The great lines we must follow? From the political point of view, the first thing we want is to be masters of our own destiny, a country free from foreign interference, a country that seeks out its own system of development.”

“The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.”

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am…only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”

“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”

“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.”

“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”

“I have lived magnificent days.”

“Wealth is far from being within the reach of the masses simply through the process of appropriation.”

“One must endure without losing tenderness.”

“The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.”

“We must struggle every day so that this love for humanity becomes a reality.”

“Until the everlasting victory.”