“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

—  Ernesto Che Guevara

As quoted in Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions (2005) by Earl Ernest Guile
Variant: Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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