“Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
As quoted in Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (2010) by John Lee Anderson, p. 178
“It is in prison … that one becomes a real revolutionary.”
Attributed in "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb" in TIME (24 April 1964).
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