Che Guevara Quote

Source/Notes: As quoted in Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions (2005) by Earl Ernest Guile

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“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January-April 1965); also, in Che Guevara speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings (1967)

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“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

- Che Guevara

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“I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.... I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Letter to his mother (July 15, 1956) as quoted in Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (1997) by Jon Lee Anderson ISBN 0802116000

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“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Statement in Mexico (1958); as quoted in Kaplan AP World History 2005 (2004) edited by the Kaplan staff, p. 240

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“The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: Regarding the IMF, in an interview for Radio Rivadavia of Argentina (3 November 1959)

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“If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: As quoted in Cuba and the Rule of Law (1962), compiled by the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, p. 185

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“If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.”

- Che Guevara

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“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: As quoted in "Becoming Che: Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America (2005) by Carlos "Calica" Ferrer"

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“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”

- Che Guevara

Source/Notes: As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112

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Che Guevara Quote

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