Che Guevara

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Modern influential 140 sayings

Sayings by Che Guevara

Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and other men come forward to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato of machine guns and new cries of battle and victory.

1967 — Message to the Tricontinental
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We must not be afraid to make mistakes, as long as we learn from them.

Undated — Speech
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The revolution is a continuous struggle against imperialism and against our own weaknesses.

Undated, likely 1960s — Speech
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Youth must make its revolution.

1964 — Speech to young communists
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The ultimate end of militarism is war.

Undated — Speech
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There is no such thing as a bloodless revolution.

Undated, likely 1960s — Interview
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The best form of government is that which makes the people happy.

Undated — Speech
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The revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Undated — Speech
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A country that does not know how to fight for its rights is a country that does not deserve them.

Undated — Speech
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The revolution is made by men, but it is for humanity.

Undated — Speech
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The revolution is a force that creates new men.

1965 — Socialism and Man in Cuba
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Study hard, work hard, and fight hard.

Undated — Advise to young people
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The people should be the masters of their own destiny.

Undated — Speech
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The revolution is a struggle for the liberation of man.

Undated — Speech
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I have no home, no wife, no children, no parents, no brothers, no sisters. My home is the world, my wife is the revolution, my children are the people, my parents are the workers, my brothers are the oppressed, my sisters are the exploited.

Undated — Attributed, but precise source hard to verify. Common paraphrase.
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We must establish a new type of man, a new society.

1965 — Socialism and Man in Cuba
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The only way to win is to fight.

Undated — Speech
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We are not afraid of anything, except of not being revolutionary enough.

Undated, likely 1960s — Speech
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The revolution is a continuous process of learning and unlearning.

Undated — Speech
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We must create two, three, many Vietnams.

1967 — Message to the Tricontinental
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