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.
Source: On leaving Cuba to join guerrillas in the Bolivian jungle; last letter to his parents, 1965.
-- Che Guevara, (Jun 14 1928-1967), Argentine revolutionary; He was a Marxist intellectual who helped Castro takeover Cuba in the 1950s; tired to spread revolution to Latin America and Africa.