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We, politely referred to as "underdeveloped," in truth are colonial, semi-colonial or dependent countries. (Che Guevara)
In our zeal as revolutionists we try to move ahead as fast as possible, clearing the way, but knowing we must draw our sustenance from the mass and that it can advance more rapidly only if we inspire it by our example. View quote
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The beginnings will not be easy; they shall be extremely difficult. View quote
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Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school. View quote
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Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive. View quote
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There are no borders in this struggle to the death. View quote
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The road is long and full of difficulties. View quote
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The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he himself left science to shoulder his revolutionary rifle. View quote
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The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. View quote
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Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear. View quote
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Ever since monopoly capital took over the world, it has kept the greater part of humanity in poverty, dividing all the profits among the group of the most powerful countries. The standard of living in those countries is based on the extreme poverty of our countries. To raise the living standards of the underdeveloped nations, therefore, we must fight against imperialism. (Che Guevara)
A school of artistic experimentation is invented, which is said to be the definition of freedom; but this "experimentation” has its limits, imperceptible until there is a clash, that is, until the real problems of individual alienation arise. View quote
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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 remain free. View quote
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Man still needs to undergo a complete spiritual rebirth in his attitude towards his work, freed from the direct pressure of his social environment, though linked to it by his new habits. View quote
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When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist when asked if he is a "Newtonian," or if he is a "Pasteurian". View quote
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The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. View quote
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What are our primary goals? Our greatest goals? View quote
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We, practical revolutionaries, initiating our own struggle, simply fulfill laws foreseen by Marx, the scientist. View quote
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Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. View quote
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Popular forces can win a war against an army. View quote
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In underdeveloped America, the countryside is the basic area for armed fighting. (Che Guevara)
The guerrilla fighter, who is general of himself, need not die in every battle... [a guerrilla fighter] is ready to die, not to defend an ideal, but rather to convert it into reality. View quote
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Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them. View quote
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[We] only send to Guanahacabibes those doubtful cases where we are not sure people should go to jail. I believe that people who should go to jail should go to jail anyway. Whether long-standing militants or whatever, they should go to jail. We send to Guanahacabibes those people who should not go to jail, people who have committed crimes against revolutionary morals, to a greater or lesser degree, along with simultaneous sanctions like being deprived of their posts, and in other cases not those sanctions, but rather to be reeducated through labor. It is hard labor, not brute labor, rather the working conditions are harsh but they are not brutal... View quote
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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. View quote
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