Men of all social classes of Cuba....Talk does not run out … Che Guevara

Men of all social classes of Cuba....Talk does not run out … Che Guevara




" Talk does not run out "



"Those are the new humans being born in Cuba. They are being born in isolated areas, in different parts of the Sierra Maestra."



"The task of educating and feeding youngsters, the task of educating the army, the task of distributing the lands of the former absentee landlords to those who laboured every day upon that same land without receiving its benefits, are accomplishments of social medicine which have been performed in Cuba."


"The principle upon which the fight against disease should be based is the creation of a robust body; but not the creation of a robust body by the artistic work of a doctor upon a weak organism; rather, the creation of a robust body with the work of the whole collectivity, upon the entire social collectivity."


"Some day, therefore, medicine will have to convert itself into a science that serves to prevent disease and orients the public toward carrying out its medical duties. Medicine should only intervene in cases of extreme urgency, to perform surgery or something else which lies outside the skills of the people of the new society we are creating."



" On Revolutionary Medicine"

"The respect which we had had for the sacrosanct property right to those ten thousand head of cattle was lost in the course of armed battle, and we understood perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth a million time more than all the property of the richest man on earth. And we learned it; we, who were not of the working class nor of the peasant class. And are we going to tell the four winds, we who were the privileged ones, that the rest of the people in Cuba cannot learn it also? Yes, they can learn it, and besides, the Revolution today demands that they learn it, demands that it be well understood that far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one s neighbor; that much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people. And each doctor, within the circle of his activities, can and must accumulate that valuable treasure, the gratitude of his people."

"We must, then, begin to erase our old concepts and begin to draw closer and closer to the people and to be increasingly aware. We must approach them not as before. You are all going to say, No. I like the people. I love talking to workers and peasants, and I go here or there on Sundays to see such and such. Everybody has done it. But we have done it practising charity, and what we have to practice today is solidarity. We should not go to the people and say, Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, you r lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things. We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people."

"Later we will realize many times how mistaken we were in concepts that were so familiar they became part of us and were an automatic part of our thinking. Often we need to change our concepts, no only the general concepts, the social or philosophical ones, but also sometimes, our medical concepts."


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