Che Guevara Quotes

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• The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
• Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality,…
• To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
• The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have…
• Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
• The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which…
• If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
• A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!
• 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,…
• Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the…
• It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
• The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
• The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
• The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
• The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
• When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
• The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
• In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one
• Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
• Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks…

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