Ten quotes (in Spanish) to remember Che Guevara

1. "Prefiero morir de pie, a vivir arrodillado"

2. "Recuerden que el eslabón más alto que pude alcanzar la especie humana es ser revolucionario"

3. "Todos los días la gente se arregla el cabello, ¿por qué no el corazón?"

4. "Podrán morir las personas, pero jamás sus ideas"

5. "Si el presente es de lucha, el futuro es nuestro"

6. "El conocimiento nos hace responsables"

7. "Sueña y serás libre en espíritu, lucha y serás libre en vida" 8. "Sólo existe un sentimiento mayor que el amor a la libertad: el odio al que te la quita"

9. "Hay que endurecerse sin perder jamás la ternura"

10. "Sean capaces siempre de sentir, en lo más hondo, cualquier injusticia realizada contra cualquiera, en cualquier parte del mundo. Es la cualidad más linda del revolucionario."

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His name is synonymous with revolution. Indeed, Che Guevara is one of the strongest figures in new world history. He just could not take the plight of the poor in his native continent, South America – and decided to do something about it. He frequently held guerilla campaigns against the governments and their brutality. Though he was executed while doing his good work, he is still remembered and revered all over the world. Take a look at some of his best quotes, here are the top 5.

1. I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

2. Silence is argument carried out by other means.

3. 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.

4. I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

5. 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.

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According to some rumours, Che Guevara actually was born on 14th May 1928 - so today he would celebrate his 86th birthday - but his parents hid it as a secret and they told everyone that their firstborn came to this world a month later, on 14th June - to hide the fact that they had a sexual relationship before the wedding. 
Whatever is the truth, we will never know. As a kind of celebration, the Spanish website muyinteresante.es published an article with Che's famous quotes.

Here is the article:

Frases célebres del Che

El 14 de junio de 1928 nacía en Rosario, Argentina, una figura fundamental en la historia de Latinoamérica: Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

Aquí te dejamos algunas frases célebres de este político e ideólogo de la Revolución Cubana.

"¡Hasta la victoria siempre!"

"Si no existe la organización, las ideas, después del primer momento de impulso, van perdiendo eficacia".

"La arcilla fundamental de nuestra obra es la juventud, en ella depositamos nuestra esperanza y la preparamos para tomar de nuestras manos la bandera". A lo que añadía en un discurso en 1962 "Pero la juventud tiene que crear. Una juventud que no crea es una anomalía realmente".

"Me siento tan patriota de Latinoamérica, de cualquier país de Latinoamérica, como el que más y, en el momento en que fuera necesario, estaría dispuesto a entregar mi vida por la liberación de cualquiera de los países de Latinoamérica, sin pedirle nada a nadie, sin exigir nada, sin explotar a nadie".

"Porque esta gran humanidad ha dicho basta y ha echado a andar. Y su marcha, de gigantes, ya no se detendrá hasta conquistar la verdadera independencia, por la que ya han muerto más de una vez inútilmente."

"Nuestra libertad y su sostén cotidiano tienen color de sangre y están henchidos de sacrificio".

"Déjeme decirle, a riesgo de parecer ridículo, que el revolucionario verdadero está guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor".

"Nuestro sacrificio es consciente; cuota para pagar la libertad que construimos".

"Y sobre todo, sean siempre capaces de sentir en lo más hondo cualquier injusticia cometida contra cualquiera en cualquier parte del mundo. Es la cualidad más linda de un revolucionario".

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For today I have collected some great parts from Che Guevara's speech to the first Latin American Youth Congress.

Here is a little teaser:

"Although it may seem paradoxical, I would also like to greet today the delegation representing the purest of the U.S. people. I would like to salute them because the U.S. people are not to blame for the barbarity and injustice of their rulers, and because they are innocent victims of the rage of all the peoples of the world, who sometimes confuse a social system with a people."

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If you liked the quotes and you would like to read the whole speech - which is really worth reading - please click here:

[Speech to the First Latin American Youth Congress].
 

For today, I am going to share with you some interesting quotes and opinions about Che Guevara by such people who met or knew him, or just studied his life.

- Why did they think that by killing him, he would cease to exist as a fighter? ... Today he is in every place, wherever there is a just cause to defend.

Fidel Castro

- Che was wearing green fatigues, and his usual overgrown and scraggly beard. Behind the beard his features are quite soft, almost feminine, and his manner is intense. He has a good sense of humor, and there was considerable joking back and forth during the meeting ... Although he left no doubt of his personal and intense devotion to communism, his conversation was free of propaganda and bombast. He spoke calmly, in a straightforward manner, and with the appearance of detachment and objectivity ... I had the definite impression that he had thought out his remarks very carefully — they were extremely well organized.

Richard N. Goodwin, US Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs

- On his trips, he would receive gifts from his hosts, some of them very expensive. He would get presents for me as well, and he would give them away if he considered them too ostentatious. I was given a color TV only to see Che pass it on to a factory worker. And back then, it was sort of an unimaginable item. Once, after a trip to Algeria, he received a barrel of an excellent wine. When he arrived home, he told me to give it to the army barracks near our home. I would not always unconditionally obey his mandates. Knowing that wine was one of the few treats he allowed himself, I kept five liters.

Aleida March

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