Che Guevara Quotes

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.