50+ Che Guevara Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
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Consist Democracy Election Politics Rich
Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!
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Act Criminal Individual Learning Mass Thinking Youth
The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.
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Apple Fall Revolution Ripe Wisdom
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.
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Execute Guilt Man Necessary Proof
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.
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Action Consult Contribution Follow Leadership Norm People System
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.
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Circumstance Complicated Dwell Heart Person Shallow Truth
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.
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Convenience Interest Justice Legal Power Tool
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.
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Children Education Money Privilege Study System Wall
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.
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Arms Battle Cry Death Reach Surprise
I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
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Fight War Warrior Weapon
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
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Achievement Commodity Compell Condition Himself Necessity Physical Produce True
The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.
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Duty Education Inspirational Revolution
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
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Injustice Society Tremble
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
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Country Deceive Reading Uneducated Writing
It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
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Enemy Friendship Sad
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
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Cruel Leadership replace
I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.
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Beginning Ending Fear
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
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Alone Important Remember Revolution
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
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Existence Liberate People
If I lose, it will not mean that it was impossible to win.
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Impossible Lose Motivational Win
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
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Abolition Definition Exploit Man Social Valid
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.
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Conformity Destiny Fact Travel
We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.
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Believe Freedom Revolution Right Struggle

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