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

— Ernesto Che Guevara

As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Variant: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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