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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Che Guevara

1967

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Conditions for revolution Revolution Revolutionary politics Politics

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1967

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Che Guevara

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Guevara, Che. Interviewed by Boualam Rouissi. Libération, 17-23 Mar. 1965.

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