"I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people."
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"The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny."
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"The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations."
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"Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize."
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"The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day."
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"A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive."
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"A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall]."
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"The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation"
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"The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths"
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"The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction."
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"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."
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"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."
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"Words without deeds are worthless."
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"The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto — not just as regards students but also professors. Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit."
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"The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny."
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"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 truths."
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"War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal."
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"Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians."
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"There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man."
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"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel."
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