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Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
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Thrive not from triumphs, but from surmounting adversities.
2.
The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
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The authentic radical is propelled by deep emotions of affection.
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It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.
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It is a disheartening situation to have no acquaintances, yet more melancholy not to have adversaries.
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Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
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Government by the people cannot be limited only to polls that are regularly contrived and manipulated by the wealthy and career politicians.
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Be realistic, demand the impossible!
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Set achievable objectives but don't be afraid to push the envelope.
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Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
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Endeavor consistently to empathize with any injustice inflicted on anyone around the globe. This is the greatest trait of a revolutionary.
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Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
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Every day People groom their appearance, why not their disposition?
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We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.
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Let the world change you and you can change the world
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'Allow the universe to shape you and in turn, you can transform it.'
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If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
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If you can quiver with indignation every time an injustice is perpetrated in the world, then we are allies.
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Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!
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Youngsters should cultivate the habits of collective thought and action. To think independently is an offense!
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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.
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The boundaries of the educational institution must be removed. Education should not be exclusive, so that those with financial means can gain knowledge.
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We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.
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We should not assume that liberation can be attained without effort.
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
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'Revolution is not a ripened fruit that drops spontaneously; it must be forcibly induced.'
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I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
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I am unconcerned if I falter as long as someone else takes up my weapon and continues fighting.
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Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?
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To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
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'To achieve great success, one must be willing to start from nothing.'
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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Muteness is a dispute conducted through different methods.
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If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
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If you fume with rage at every wrong then you are a partner of mine.
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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
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'I am not a savior. Saviors do not exist. People emancipate themselves.'
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Words that do not match deeds are not important.
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Actions speak louder than words.
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Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!
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Let's be pragmatic. Let's strive for the inconceivable!
24.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
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We cannot be certain of possessing something worth living for unless we are prepared to risk our lives for it.
25.
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
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The ***** is lethargic and lackadaisical, and spends his money on superfluities, whereas the European is progressive, methodical and sagacious.
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And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
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It was soon made unmistakably obvious that the life of one human being is worth an infinite amount more than all the possessions of the wealthiest person alive.
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A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
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A new age will emerge in Africa, when the financially disadvantaged multitudes of a nation take control to reclaim their entitlement to a quality life from the leadership of the powerful elites.
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It's not my fault if reality is Marxist
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It's not my responsibility if truth is Marxist.
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My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!
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Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.
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Empathize strongly with any injustice perpetrated on anyone, anywhere in the globe.
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I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
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'I am aware that your objective is to terminate me. Release the trigger, spineless one, you will only be taking a human life.'
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At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
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Perilous of being considered foolish, permit me to say that a genuine revolutionary is propelled by an intense sentiment of love. It is unfathomable to imagine a true revolutionary without this characteristic.
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To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.
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Implement a man without evidence of his wrongdoing; all we must show is that it is essential to do so. It's as easy as that.
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I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
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Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
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One must endure without losing tenderness.
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I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.
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The best form of saying is doing.
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Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.
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One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
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I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
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The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
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The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.
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Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
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The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
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A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
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A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].
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The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
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49.
The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths
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50.
The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.
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