Che Guevara Quotes

Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)

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Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader during the Cuban revolution. Following his execution in Bolivia, he became both a stylised countercultural icon and symbol of rebellion for leftist movements worldwide.

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Pen Names: Pelado • Teté • Furibundo Serna • Fuser • Chancho • Chang-Cho • Luís Hernández Gálvez • Tatu • Adolfo Mena González • Ramón • Fernando Sacamuelas

Native Name: Ernesto Guevara

Alternative Names: El Che • Che • Ernesto Guevara de la Serna • Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna

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The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally, and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always.

I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto—not just as regards students but also professors.

The North American government used the quota system on imports of Cuban sugar not only to protect her own sugar industry, as demanded by her own producers, but also to make possible the unrestricted introduction into our country of North American manufactured goods.

The dictatorship tries to function without resorting to force so we must try to oblige it to do so, thereby unmasking its true nature as the dictatorship of the reactionary social classes.

I think the place to start is to recognize the individual's quality of incompleteness, of being an unfinished product. The vestiges of the past are brought into the present in one's consciousness, and a continual labor is necessary to eradicate them.

We must agree that the socialist countries are, in a certain way, accomplices of imperialist exploitation ... The socialist countries have the moral duty to put an end to their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer. The skeleton of our complete freedom is already formed. The flesh and the clothing are lacking; we will create them.