Ernesto Guevara: Frases en inglés
Ernesto Guevara era político e ideólogo argentino-cubano. Frases en inglés.“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36
“The government of the United States is not the champion of freedom”
Address to the United Nations (1964)
Contexto: Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom? The government of the United States is not the champion of freedom, but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world and against a large part of its own population.
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Variante: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Contexto: Our task is to prevent the present generation, torn asunder by its conflicts, from becoming perverted and from perverting new generations. We must not bring into being either docile servants of official thought or scholarship students who live at the expense of the state — practising "freedom." Already there are revolutionaries coming who will sing the song of the new man in the true voice of the people. This is a process, which takes time.
“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
Variante: I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
“Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.”
Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
Contexto: You should fight to be among the best in school. The very best in every sense and you already know what that means; study and revolutionary attitude. In other words: good conduct, seriousness, love for the revolution, comradeship. I was not that way at your age but I lived in a different society, where man was an enemy of man. Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.
Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
Contexto: The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he himself left science to shoulder his revolutionary rifle. And it takes him up at that point, not in a revisionist spirit, of struggling against that which follows Marx, of reviving "pure" Marx, but simply because up to that point Marx, the scientist, placed himself outside of the history he studied and predicted. From then on Marx, the revolutionary, could fight within history.
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January-April 1965); also, in Che Guevara speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings (1967)
Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
Contexto: 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.
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Contexto: Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression.