Che Guevara Quotes

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over, and people are standing up.

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

An oppressed people will always rise.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Only force would produce social change.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

Power Concedes Nothing

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then you win.

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.