Latin America Quotes - Page 8

• Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.

  Elena Poniatowska

  Latin, Reality, America

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• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, America, Black

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, America, United States

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• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Latin, Russia

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• The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.

  Kim Il-sung

  Latin, Struggle, America

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.

  Craig Kielburger

  Latin, Kids, America

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Latin, Fall, Rights

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• I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

  Jenna Bush

  Latin, Book, Writing

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• Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Zoos, Latin, Past

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• I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

  Jenna Bush

  Country, Latin, Home

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• I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Latin, America, Movement

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Latin, Struggle

  Paul Farmer (2012). “Haiti After the Earthquake”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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• Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sorry, Latin, Humble

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• I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Latin, America, Want

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• The fast growing markets - the BRICS and Next Eleven - are the key. The next billion consumers are not going to come from the US or Western Europe - they are coming from Asia, Latin America and Africa. Formula One follows our strategy: fast growing markets, data, and digital. All those three things Formula One has. And it involves a stunning array of companies. Now that doesn't mean there can't be more.

  Martin Sorrell

  Latin, Mean, America

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• The arguments of waste are heavily overdone, because what you do is to accelerate the infrastructure that you have to build anyway, like airports and roads, and in this case it happens much faster. So speaking of a roadmap, without being specific, I would still go for Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East - that's what our clients are really interested in.

  Martin Sorrell

  Latin, Airports, America

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• We have seen how Zika has become a very serious problem in Brazil, in other parts of Latin America, in this hemisphere. During the summer it can arrive very quickly here in south Florida, in the whole state. In a very hot climate in summer, where mosquitos begin to spread very quickly, it's a very serious threat.

  Marco Rubio

  Summer, Latin, Florida

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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.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Latin, Economic Models

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• The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Christian, Latin, America

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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• It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Latin, America

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

  Desi Arnaz

  Girl, Strong, Latin

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

  Robert Zoellick

  Latin, Struggle, Paris

  "Boom Times for Criminal Syndicates" by Michael Klare, www.motherjones.com. April 6, 2009.

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• The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

  Mario Benedetti

  Country, Real, Latin

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• We discovered this halfway through the process. When we started making the film there were some lines of dialogue in Portuguese, but we then changed our minds. The film started from very specific issues in the world, in particular Latin America, but halfway through the journey we felt the necessity to have more universal ideas that were not so specific.

  Alex Abreu

  Latin, Journey, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized that these are not issues only pertinent to Latin America: poverty, misery, consumerism, etc.

  Alex Abreu

  Latin, America, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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