Che Guevara Quotes

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

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.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice. It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. Nor is it always certain that injustice will be followed by rebellion – it would be very much better for the world if this was the case. But where the victims of aggression or custom are ignorant and disunited, the opportunities for reasoned and effective revolt are practically reduced to nothing…

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. 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.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

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

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Fear and Hope — those are the names of the two great passions which rule the race of man, and with which revolutionists have to deal; to give hope to the many oppressed and fear to the few oppressors

These ignorants who rule Egypt with force and with security agencies --- I call upon them to fear Allah, to return to Allah, and to reach out to this people, which attributes power and honor to you. Otherwise, the people will soon trample you underfoot, Allah willing.

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

Tyranny may precipitate a revolutionary movement at any time.

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.