Che and the workers

In the Ministry of the Industry. August 15, 1964

“... and for you, comrades, who are the vanguard of vanguard, for all of you who have proved your spirit of sacrifice, your communist spirit, your new attitude toward your lives, Fidel’s phrase shall always be valued, the phrase that you inserted in one the boxes in this building: what we have been in hours of mortal danger, let’s learn to be the same during production. Let’s learn how to be workers of Homeland or Death!”Speech made during the delivery of 
Community Work Certificates 
in the Ministry of the Industry. August 15, 1964“He who aspires to be leader has to be able to confront, or better, be exposed to the verdict of the masses, and to be confident that he has been chosen a leader or has been nominated as a leader because he is the best among the good ones, due to his work, his spirit of sacrifice, his continuous vanguard attitude in all the fights that the proletariat has to execute on a daily basis to build socialism”.Speech to the General Assembly of Workers 
in Textilería Ariguanabo, March 14, 1963