Latest Che Guevara Quotes from Interviews

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• We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.

  Che Guevara

  Government, People, Support

  Source: guevaristas.org

• I understand that the American people has a right and especially the press, which is not very friendly to us, to make all suppositions and ideas about this fact [suicide by Augusto Martinez] - this disgraced fact.

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  Suicide, Ideas, People

  Source: guevaristas.org

• The fact of the attempted suicide by Augusto Martinez was explained in a concise and exact form by our government in a communique. There is absolutely nothing else to add.

  Che Guevara

  Suicide, Government, Add

  Source: guevaristas.org

• We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people.

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  Opportunity, People, Facts

  Source: guevaristas.org

• We know the power of the U.S.. We do not fool ourselves about this power. We say that the U.S. government wants us to pay a very high price for this unstable peace we enjoy today. And the price we are in a position to pay is only - comes only to the frontiers of dignity, not beyond.

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  Government, Want, Pay

  Source: guevaristas.org

• If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.

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  Government, Order, Ifs

  Source: guevaristas.org

• We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.

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  Years, Effort, Next Year

  Source: guevaristas.org

• We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

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  Taken, Important, Cuba

  Source: guevaristas.org

• I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.

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  Men, Numbers, Plant

  Source: guevaristas.org

• I am being bombed by questions of all kinds. I will try to be very concise and try to explain to the American people. We had a great number of mistakes in the economic fleld, naturally. I am not the critic. It is Fidel Castro, the one who has criticized repeatedly the mistakes we have made, and he explained why we have made them. We did not have a previous preparation. We made mistakes in agriculture. We made mistakes in industry. All these mistakes are being settled now.

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  Mistake, Numbers, Agriculture

  Source: guevaristas.org

• In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.

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  Men, Hygiene, Best Effort

  Source: guevaristas.org

• With a military American base in our territory, where there could be any sort of weapons, where we have to endure every kind of provocations, we have to support and endure the flights over our territory.

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  Military, Support, Territory

  Source: guevaristas.org

• The problem of peaceful transition to socialism, we do not discuss it as a theoretical question. But in America it is very difficult, and it is nearly impossible. That is why specifically in America we say that the road to the liberation of peoples, which will be the road of socialism will go through bullets in almost all countries.

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  Country, America, Peaceful

  Source: guevaristas.org

• We feel that there is a necessity to strengthen unity and that it will be strengthened and the bloc, the monolithic bloc of socialist countries will be formed again.

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  Country, Socialist Countries, Unity

  Source: guevaristas.org

• I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.

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  Struggle, Government, Leader

  Source: guevaristas.org

• Always we argue that unity is necessity because disunity goes in favor of the U.S. , which are our enemy, and everything that goes in favor of the enemy must be eliminated. That is why we are in favor of unity.

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  Unity, Enemy, Favors

  Source: guevaristas.org

• Our attitude is very clear. In effect there is the conflict, ideological conflict which we all know. We have stated our position in the sense of unity among socialist states - unity as a first measure.

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  Attitude, Unity, Firsts

  Source: guevaristas.org

• We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states.

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  Government, Lots Of Friends, Lasts

  Source: guevaristas.org

• If you ask me the image of Latin America, there are sorne countries which oppress their peoples much more, and among the less - least oppressive, among those with which we could have perfectly normal relations without any difficulties - we could have Uruguay, Chile, maybe Costa Rica. But the U.S.. do not permit us.

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  Country, Latin, Perfectly Normal

  Source: guevaristas.org

• What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.

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  Military, Fighting, Government

  Source: guevaristas.org

• There is one government with which we keep diplomatic relations, the government of Mexico, with which we have good relations. Our systems are different. We respect their system.

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  Government, Different, Mexico

  Source: guevaristas.org

• We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

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  Allies, Revolution, Internals

  Source: guevaristas.org

• Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

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  Country, Latin, Exercise

  Source: guevaristas.org

• Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.

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  Agreement, Cuba, Bases

  Source: guevaristas.org

• We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

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  Want, Discrimination, Kind

  Source: guevaristas.org