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27 revolučních myšlenek, které posunou vaše vnímání světa

„Pokud se třesete rozhořčením nad každou nespravedlností, pak jste mým soudruhem.“

„Mnozí mi budou říkat dobrodruh, a tím i jsem ... jen takový odlišný: takový, kdo riskuje svůj život, aby dokázal svou pravdu.“

„Život jakéhokoliv jediného člověka na světě je cennější než všechen majetek nejbohatšího muže planety.“

„Revoluce je jako jízdní kolo. Když nejede dopředu, padá.“

„Ti, jež zabíjejí své vlastní děti a denně je rozlišují podle barvy jejich kůže; ti jež nechávají vrahy černochů nepotrestané, ochraňují je, a nadto trestají černé obyvatelstvo, protože požaduje legitimní práva jako svobodní lidé – jak můžou ti, jež činí toto, považovat sami sebe za ochránce svobody? Vláda Spojených států není obránce svobody, ale pachatel vykořisťování a útisku proti národům z celého světa a dokonce proti velké části svého vlastního obyvatelstva.“

„Chci cítit na tváři úder zasažený do tváře kteréhokoliv člověka…“

„Ať žije revoluce!“

„Vlast nebo smrt!“

„Až ke konečnému vítězství!“

„V okamžiku, kdy to bude nezbytné, budu připraven položit život za svobodu kteréhokoliv latinskoamerického národa, bez ptaní kohokoliv na cokoliv, bez jakýchkoliv požadavků, bez využití kohokoliv.“

„Revoluce není jako jablko, které spadne, když je zralé. Musíte jí pomoct.“

„Pokojné soužití nemůže být omezeno na mocné země, jestliže chceme zabezpečit světový mír.“

„Každý náš čin je bojovým pokřikem proti imperialismu, a zároveň bojová hymna za spojení lidí proti největšímu nepříteli lidstva: Spojeným státům americkým.“

„Nezajímá mě, jestli padnu, pokud někdo jiný zvedne zbraň a bude dál střílet.“

„Vždy k vítězství! (Hasta la victoria siempre!)“

„První povinností revolucionáře je být vzdělaný.“

„Kuba byla vyvinuta jako cukrovar ve Spojených státech.“

„Popravovali jsme, popravujeme a budeme popravovat.“

„V této válce za svobodu není vojáka srovnatelného s Camilem.“

„Revoluce musí být nenávist a zabíjet.“

„Ať vás svět změní a vy můžete změnit svět.“

„Počátky nebudou snadné; musí být nesmírně obtížné.“

„Vyrůstejte jako dobří revolucionáři.“

„Můj marxismus zakořenil a stal se očištěným.“

„Společnost jako celek musí být přeměněna na gigantickou školu.“

“I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”

“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.”

“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”

“For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another.”

“There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.”

“The best form of saying is being”

“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”

“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”

“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel…”

“The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day”

“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”

“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”

“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”

“This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.”

“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another…”

“Let me say,
at the risk of seeming ridiculous,
that the true revolutionary
is guided by great feelings of love.”

“Thanks for Playa Girón. Before the invasion, the (Cuban) revolution was weak. Now it's stronger than ever.”

“In the future individualism ought to be the efficient utilization of the whole individual for the absolute benefit of a collectivity.”

“A number of students denounce state intervention and the loss of university autonomy. This student sector reflects its class background while forgetting its revolutionary obligation. This sector has not realized that it has an obligation to workers and peasants. Our workers and peasants died beside the students in order to attain power.”

“The government of the United States represents, as its army also does, the finances of the United States. But these finances do not represent the North American people; they represent a small group of financiers, the owners of all the big enterprises… who also exploit the North American people. Clearly they do not exploit them in the same manner that they exploit us, the human beings of inferior races… for we have not had the good fortune of being born from blond, Anglo-Saxon parents. But they do exploit and divide them, they too are divided into blacks and whites, and they too are divided into men and women, union and non-union, employed and unemployed.”

“If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven’t got them, so we shall fight with what we’ve got.”

“The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”

“Let us not attempt, from the pontifical throne of realism-at-any-cost, to condemn all the art forms which have evolved since the first half of the nineteenth century for we would then fall into the Proudhonian mistake of returning to the past, of putting a straitjacket on the artistic expression of the man who is being born and is in the process of making himself.”

“How could I as an individual, Ernesto Guevara, accept the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa conferred by the School of Education, since the only education I have imparted has been that of guerrilla camps, harsh words, and fierce example? And I believe such things certainly cannot be transformed into a cap and gown. That is why I continue to wear my Rebel Army uniform.”

“Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.”

“To die under the flag of Vietnam, of Venezuela, of Guatemala, of Laos, of Guinea, of Colombia, of Bolivia, of Brazil — to name only a few scenes of today's armed struggle — would be equally glorious and desirable for an American, an Asian, an African, even a European.”

“It is possible that this may be the end. I don't seek it, but it's within the logical realms of probabilities. If it should be so, I send you a final embrace.”

“How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering, and to buy at world market prices the machinery produced in today's big automated factories?”