Che Guevara

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.

Che Guevara

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.

Che Guevara

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

Che Guevara

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.

Che Guevara

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

Che Guevara

We must eliminate all newspapers; we cannot make a revolution with free press. Newspapers are instruments of the oligarchy.

Che Guevara

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

Che Guevara

We must strive everyday so that love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

Che Guevara

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.

Che Guevara

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

Che Guevara