“Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

As quoted in Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (2010) by John Lee Anderson, p. 178

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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