“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”

—  Ernesto Che Guevara

Variant: I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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