Che Guevara > Quotes

“People must see clearly the futility of maintaining the fight for social goals within the framework of civil debate. When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.”
― Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare

“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!”
― Che Guevara

“Why does the guerilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerilla 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 of his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery. He launches himself against the conditions of the reigning institutions at a particular moment and dedicates himself with all the vigor that circumstances permit to breaking the mold of these institutions.”
― Che Guevara, Guerrilla Wardare.

“The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.”
― Che Guevara

“Hasta la victoria siempre! Patria o muerte!”
― Che Guevara, CHE GUEVARA: The Diary

“deparamos então com outra nova realidade cubana - o operário, o trabalhador, quer o operário agrícola quer o operário dos centros industriais -, e com ele também aprendemos e a ele também ensinamos que, em um dado momento, muito mais forte e positivo que a mais forte e positiva das manifestações pacíficas, é um tiro bem dado em quem se deve dar,”
― Che Guevara, Textos políticos (Che Guevara)