Che Guevara death anniversary: Ten quotes to remember the revolutionary icon

Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as 'Che', was born on this day in the year 1928. Today marks the 92nd death anniversary of the revolutionary and the 'theoretician and tactician' of the Guerrilla warfare. The communist icon was an integral part of the Cuban Revolution. 
'Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.' (YouTube screen grab)
'Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.' (YouTube screen grab)
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'The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.' (Photo | Facebook/Manu Mohan)
'The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.' (Photo | Facebook/Manu Mohan)
'Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.'(YouTube screen grab)
'Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.'(YouTube screen grab)
'I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.' (Photo | Facebook/SFI at SB)
'I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.' (Photo | Facebook/SFI at SB)
'The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.' (Photo | Facebook/SFI NSS Hindu College)
'The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.' (Photo | Facebook/SFI NSS Hindu College)
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.” (YouTube screen grab)
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.” (YouTube screen grab)
'We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.' (YouTube screen grab)
'We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.' (YouTube screen grab)
'Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.' (YouTube screen grab)
'Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.' (YouTube screen grab)
'Silence is argument carried out by other means.'(Youtube screen grab)
'Silence is argument carried out by other means.'(Youtube screen grab)
'If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.' (Photo | Facebook)
'If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.' (Photo | Facebook)

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