Che speaks to the Cuban people in "Radio Rebelde" during the revolution. (1959)
"Throughout all the months...we've already been here at Sierra Maestra for sixteen months...many journalists from all over the world have come here and they have worried about...the anecdotal part, so to speak, of this "guerrilla" war. Today, I seize the opportunity of a visiting Cuban journalist to send the first greeting that I have the chance to send to Cuba's people. A people that I've decided to defend knowing them only through the thought and action of our chief, Fidel Castro."
Che speaks to the Cuban youth.
"The young... and I see myself as a young one... we must study and study hard. We are not to say that my eyes hurt, that I'm not fond of reading, that I get tired, that there are no eye-glasses, that I have too many guards, that the children won't let me sleep... all those things people come up with. We must study by all means."
Che in an interview with US-Television. (1964)
" Lisa Howard: So, Major Guevara, it has appeared to us that two of your chief problems are this difficulty disciplining the people to a comunist state and a kind of strangling burocraccy...
Che: Our problems, right? (making sure that he understood the question properly)
Lisa Howard: Yes.
Che: Our two most important problems are the imperialism and the imperialism. Then, the rest may come afterwards. But, now, I can give you an answer to the question you make. "
Che speaks to the United Nations (1964).
"The epic campaign in front of us, will be written by the hungry masses of Indians, of peasants without land, of exploited workers. It will be written by the progressive masses, the honest and brilliant intellectuals that are in abundance in our long suffering land of Latin America. "
Fidel reads the letter from Che's Farewell letter in which he explaines why he left Cuba (1965)
"Fidel: At this moment I remember many things -- when I met you in Marfa Antonia's house, when you suggested my coming, all the tensions involved in the preparations. One day they asked who should be notified in case of death, and the real possibility of that fact affected us all. Later we knew that it was true, that in revolution one wins or dies (if it is a real one). Seldom has a statesman been more brilliant than you in those days.I am also proud of having followed you without hesitation, identified with your way of thinking and of seeing and appraising dangers and principles. Other nations of the world call for my modest efforts. I can do that which is denied you because of your responsibility as the head of Cuba, and the time has come for us to part. I want it known that I do it with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow: I leave here the purest of my hopes as a builder, and the dearest of those I love. And I leave a people who received me as a son. Ever onward to victory! Our country or death! I embrace you with all my revolutionary fervor. Che"
Fidel in a speech about Che after Che's death (1967)
"If we want to express how do we want men to be in the future, we must say: we want them to be like Che. If we want to say how do we want our childen to be brought up, we must say, unhesitatingly : we want them to be brought up in the spirit of Che. "
