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“The enemy soldier in the Cuban example, which we are now considering, is the junior partner of the dictator; he is the man who gets the last crumbs left to him in a long line of profiteers that begins in Wall Street and ends with him. He is disposed to defend his privileges, but he is disposed to defend them only to the degree that they are important to him. His salary and pension are worth some suffering and some dangers, but they are never worth his life; if the price of maintaining them will cost it, he is better off giving them up, that is to say, withdrawing from the face of guerrilla danger.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)

“The International Monetary Fund is the watchdog of the dollar in the capitalist camp.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

On Development (1964)

“In most countries the large landholders realized they couldn't survive alone and promptly entered into alliances with the monopolies — the strongest and most ruthless oppressors of the Latin American peoples. U. S. capital arrived on the scene to exploit the virgin lands and later carried off, unnoticed, all the funds so “generously” given, plus several times the amount originally invested in the "beneficiary" country.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Cuba as Vanguard (1961)

“Our children must have, or lack, those things that the children of the ordinary citizen have or lack; our families should understand this and struggle for it to be that way.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

“The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

“The socialist countries must help pay for the development of countries now starting out on the road to liberation.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)

“Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Rocinante was the name of Don Quixotes' horse.
Last Letter to his Parents (1965)

“Our America is integrated by a group of more or less homogeneous countries and in most parts of its territory U. S. monopolist capitals maintain an absolute supremacy. Puppet governments or, in the best of cases, weak and fearful local rulers, are incapable of contradicting orders from their Yankee master.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Message to the Tricontinental (1967)

“Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)

“A more structured connection with the mass is needed, and we must improve it in the course of the coming years. But as far as initiatives originating in the upper strata of the government are concerned, we are currently utilizing the almost intuitive method of sounding out general reactions to the great problems we confront.
In this Fidel is a master. His own special way of fusing himself with the people can be appreciated only by seeing him in action. At the great public mass meetings one can observe something like the dialogue of two tuning forks whose vibrations interact, producing new sounds. Fidel and the mass begin to vibrate together in a dialogue of growing intensity until they reach the climax in an abrupt conclusion crowned by our cry of struggle and victory.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

“And the imperialists? Will they sit with their arms crossed? No! The system they practice is the cause of the evils from which we are suffering, but they will try to obscure the facts with spurious allegations, of which they are masters.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

On Development (1964)

“To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with the new material foundations, to build the new man and woman.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

“We have to remind ourselves of this at every moment: that we are in a war, a cold war as they call it; a war where there is no front line, no continuous bombardment, but where the two adversaries — this tiny champion of the Caribbean and the immense imperialist hyena — are face to face and aware that one of them is going to end up dead in the fight.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Mobilising for Invasion (1961)

“We must agree that the socialist countries are, in a certain way, accomplices of imperialist exploitation … The socialist countries have the moral duty to put an end to their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)

“The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, a decline in collective enthusiasm is reflected by a resulting quantitative decrease of the contribution of each individual, each of the elements forming the whole of the masses. Work is so paralysed that insignificant quantities are produced. It is time to make a correction.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

“Our free eyes open now on new horizons and can see what yesterday, in our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that “Western Civilization” disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and jackals … A carnivorous animal that feeds on unarmed peoples.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Address to the United Nations (1964)

“In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

“Guerrilla warfare is a people's warfare; an attempt to carry out this type of war without the population's support is a prelude to inevitable disaster.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Method of Guerrilla Warfare (1963)

“Moral missiles are such a devastatingly effective weapon that they have become the most important element in determining Cuba's value.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Tactics and Strategy of the Latin American Revolution (1962)

“The great multitudes continue to develop; the new ideas continue to attain their proper force within society; the material possibilities for the full development of all members of society make the task much more fruitful. The present is a time for struggle; the future is ours.”

Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)