Che Guevara Quotes

“Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.”

“A big kiss and a hug from Papa.”

“A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.”

“Castro impressed me as an extraordinary man. He faced and overcame the most impossible things.”

“Our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.”

“I leave a people who received me as a son. That wounds a part of my spirit.”

“Other nations of the world summon my modest efforts of assistance.”

“If my final hour finds me under other skies, my last thought will be of this people and especially of you.”

“Hasta la victoria siempre! (Ever onward to victory!)”

“Now, a willpower that I have polished with an artist's delight will sustain some shaky legs and some weary lungs.”

“The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.”

“We should like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward.”

“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.”

“The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally.”

“Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity.”

“In these circumstances one must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth.”

“The socialist countries have the moral duty to put an end to their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.”

“If I were asked whether our revolution is Communist, I would define it as Marxist.”

“I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.”

“In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one.”

“As Marxists we have maintained that peaceful coexistence among nations does not encompass coexistence between the exploiters and the exploited.”

“The struggle for liberation is not separate from the struggle against backwardness and poverty.”

“The people are weary of being oppressed, persecuted, exploited to the maximum.”

“There is a sad reality: Vietnam, a nation representing the aspirations, the hopes of a whole world of forgotten peoples, is tragically alone.”

“I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”