The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
Che GuevaraIt is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
Che GuevaraIn industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.
Che GuevaraI think with regards to solutions, there are solutions, and I think there is only one. we have said repeatedly to the government of the United States that we do not want anything but to forget us, that they do not consider us even for good or evil.
Che GuevaraWhat do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.
Che GuevaraThe university should color itself black and color itself mulatto — not just as regards students but also professors. Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.
Che GuevaraThe socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
Che GuevaraThe revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
Che GuevaraLet's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.
Che GuevaraYou know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
Che GuevaraWe 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.
Che GuevaraThere are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.
Che GuevaraWe sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba. Now if we would sell sugar to the U.S., it would be the Cuban Government the one who would sell it, and it would be a complete profit for our people.
Che GuevaraWrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.
Che GuevaraDirect aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.
Che GuevaraWe said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.
Che GuevaraHatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.
Che GuevaraI now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.
Che GuevaraOur youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
Che GuevaraThe interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
Che GuevaraI finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.
Che GuevaraI think harmonious relations with the U.S. would be very good for us from the economical point of view, more than in any other field, because all our industry has been established by the U.S. and primary products and repair parts that we have to make with much difficulty or to bring from other areas could come directly. And besides, sugar, which traditionally we had the American market is also near.
Che GuevaraThe stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.
Che GuevaraIt is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory
Che GuevaraWhen forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
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