"It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words."
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"The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead."
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"When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken."
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"Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants."
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"If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot."
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"The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day"
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"The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless."
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"We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."
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"The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street."
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"Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world."
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"The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects."
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"I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good."
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"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."
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"Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible."
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"I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people."
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"Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface."
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"The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone."
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"In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there."
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"We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end."
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"I have never considered myself an economist."
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