“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
As quoted in Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions (2005) by Earl Ernest Guile
Variante: Silence is argument carried out by other means.
“I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
These reportedly, were his last words, to Sergeant Jaime Terán, who in different accounts had either volunteered to be his executioner, or by most accounts, had been selected by lot (9 October 1967). Because of the many different reports that have arisen, much confusion and uncertainty exists about his actual last words. His last words to Colonel Arnaldo Saucedo Parada, head of intelligence of the Eighth Division who delivered the official report on Che's final moments were reported as: "I knew you were going to shoot me; I should never have been taken alive. Tell Fidel that this failure does not mean the end of the revolution, that it will triumph elsewhere. Tell Aleida to forget this, remarry and be happy, and keep the children studying. Ask the soldiers to aim well."
Variant translations:
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man.
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
Capture and Death (1967)
Speech at the University of Las Villas (1959)
Fuente: Che Guevara Talks to Young People
Contexto: The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Education should be the daily bread of the people of Cuba.
Fuente: The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Contexto: For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. As long as this has not been achieved, if we think we are in the stage of building socialism but instead of ending exploitation the work of suppressing it comes to a halt — or worse, is reversed — then we cannot even speak of building socialism.
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel…”
Fuente: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”
As quoted in Essential Care : An Ethics of Human Nature (2008) by Leonardo Boff, p. 82
Fuente: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Fuente: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Variante: Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.