Ernesto "Che" Guevara

"One has to have a great dose of humanity, a great dose of the feeling of justice and of truth not to fall into extreme dogmatism, into a cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as motivation."

"Wherever death may surprise us, it will be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, reaches some receptive ear, that another hand stretch out to take up weapons, and that other men come forward to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato of machine guns and new cries of battle and victory."

"Let the flag under which we fight represent the sacred cause of redeeming humanity, so that to die under the flag of Vietnam, of Venezuela, of Guatemala, of Laos, of Guinea, of Colombia, of Bolivia, of Brazil--to name only the scenes of today's armed struggle--be equally glorious and desirable for an American, an Asian, an African, or even a European."

"Each drop of blood spilled in a country under whose flag one has not been born constitutes experience for those who survive to apply later in the liberation struggle of their own countries. And each nation liberated as a step toward victory in the battle for the liberation of one's own country."

"Each and every one of us will pay on demand his part of sacrifice . . . knowing that all together we are getting ever closer to the new man, whose figure is beginning to appear."