Evo Morales Quotes

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• Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Rights, Earth Day

  "Bolivia's defiant leader sets radical tone at Cancún climate talks" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  Evo Morales

  Health, Reality, Worst Enemy

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• Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

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  Country, Latin, Economic Models

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• We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Needs, World

  "Cochabamba: Mining protests overshadow climate summit" by Claudia Lopez Pardo, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

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  Choices, Energy, Climate

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• The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

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  Way, Resistance, Impossible

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• For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

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  Mean, Fighting, Want

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• Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

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  Unemployment, Misery, Economic

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• Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

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  Worst Enemy, Humanity, Capitalism

  "Bush Seeks Free Trade With Latin America". "All Things Considered" with Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. September 24, 2008.

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• If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.

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  Earth, Want, Ends

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• Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

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  Majority, Bolivia, Indigenous

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• We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic.

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  Long Ago, Toxic, Campaigns

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

  Evo Morales

  Political, Enemy, Culture

  "Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.

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  Mass Destruction, Oil, Iraq

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

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  Catholic, Monopoly

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• The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.

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  Military, Fighting, Drug

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• We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

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  Lying, Latin, Law

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.

  Evo Morales

  Fighting, Oil, Giving

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

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  Country, Economic Models, Understanding

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• What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great fatherland, a dream that existed even before the Spanish conquest, and Simon Bolivar fought for it later on.

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  Dream, America, Bolivia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not so many military dictatorships. Although we have a dictator in Honduras, as a result of a coup, now as a president, he is almost the only one I would say. But again led or managed, gestated by the U.S. government.

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  Military, Latin, Past

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there are no bald people, because we eat other things.

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  Europe, People, Disease

  Evo Morales' speech at the inauguration of conference on climate change in Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 20, 2010.

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• Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States.

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  Country, Europe, Gold

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

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  Mother, Humanity, Earth

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

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  War, Latin, America

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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