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Che Guevara

Born: May 14, 1928

Died: October 9, 1967

Nationality: Argentinian

Occupation: Revolutionary

Biography: Ernesto Che Guevara, commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.

Che Guevara

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36
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“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: As quoted in Essential Care : An Ethics of Human Nature (2008) by Leonardo Boff, p. 82
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“Our universities produced lawyers and doctors for the old social system, but did not create enough agricultural extension teachers, agronomists, chemists, or physicists. In fact, we do not even have mathematicians.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Speech to University students (1959)
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“We believe that the state is capable of understanding the needs of the nation; as such, then, the state must participate in the administration and direction of the university.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Speech to University students (1959)
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“The university cannot be an ivory tower, far away from the society, removed from the practical accomplishments of the Revolution. If such an attitude is maintained, the university will continue giving our society lawyers that we do not need.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Speech to University students (1959)
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Che Guevara

“The university, vanguard of our struggling people, cannot become a backward element, but it would become so if the university did not incorporate itself into the great plans of the Revolution.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Speech to University students (1959)
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“When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Ch. 1 : General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare - Guerrilla Warfare (1960)
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“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, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Ch. 1 : General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare - Guerrilla Warfare (1960)
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“The guerrilla fighter needs full help from the people of the area. This is an indispensable condition.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Ch. 1 : General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare - Guerrilla Warfare (1960)
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“War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Ch. 1 : General Principles of Guerrilla Warfare - Guerrilla Warfare (1960)
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“The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
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“Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
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“Everything we thought and felt in that past period ought to be deposited in an archive, and a new type of human being created.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
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“The task of educating and feeding youngsters, the task of educating the army, the task of distributing the lands of the former absentee landlords to those who laboured every day upon that same land without receiving its benefits, are accomplishments of social medicine.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
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