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• The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

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  Lakes, Dust, Cities

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.

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  Simple, Games, Weapons

  "Footballing authors: who will defend Frank Lampard?" by David Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2013.

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• The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

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  Art, Rebel, Tools

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• It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

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  Fate, Victory, Wish

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• 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

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• I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

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  Motivation, Fighting, People

  "The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics". Book by Paul Hollander, p. 224, 1983.

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• If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.

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  New York, Heart, Fighting

  London Daily Worker Interview in November 1962. "Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara" by Jorge G. Castaneda, p. 231, 1998.

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• The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.

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  Wall, Distance, Differences

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• The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.

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  Country, Support, Use

  "On Development". Speech delivered at the plenary session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, www.marxists.org. March 25, 1964.

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• This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

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  Running, Dream, Mean

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

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  Wise, Practice, Would Be

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• 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

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• The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

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  Stars, Night, Space

  Ernesto Guevara, Che Guevara (2004). “Self Portrait Che Guevara”, Ocean Press

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• Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.

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  Air, Discipline, Machines

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• There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.

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  Country, Freedom, Struggle

  Speech to the Second Economic Seminar of Afro-Asian Solidarity in Algiers, Algeria, www.marxists.org. February 24, 1965.

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• It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

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  Waiting, Revolution, Insurrection

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.50, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.

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  War, Mean, Doubt

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• 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

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• 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

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

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  Government, People, Support

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

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  Latin, America, Pieces

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• And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

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  Wall, Block, Heart

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• 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

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• 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

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• The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.

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  Race, Example, Territory

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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