We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!
Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
It's not my fault if reality is Marxist
Words that do not match deeds are not important.
I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?
Let the world change you and you can change the world
Words without deeds are worthless.
One must endure without losing tenderness.
We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
Be realistic, demand the impossible!
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!
The best form of saying is being
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two 'I's' struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.
The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.
The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.
I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.
We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.
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.
I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!
To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!
