We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
In fact, if Christ him self stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
“The fundamental principle is that
no battle, combat, or skirmish is
to be fought unless it will be won.”
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.
“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.”
Wealth is far from being within the reach of the masses simply through the process of appropriation.
In moments of great peril it is easy to muster a powerful response to moral stimuli; but for them to retain their effect requires the development of a consciousness in which there is a new priority of values.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!
I would rather die standing up, then live life on my knees.
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.
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 amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country’s defeat is a defeat for all of us.
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.
Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.
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.
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.
Until victory always.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!
In fact, if Christ him self stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.
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.
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.
We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
“It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.”
“Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.”
“I don’t know if the Cuban revolution will survive or not. It’s difficult to say. But [if it doesn't]… don’t come looking for me among the refugees in the embassies. I’ve had that experience, and I’m not ever going to repeat it. I will go out with a machine gun in my hand, to the barricades… I’ll keep fighting to the end.”
“Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
“It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.”
