21 Evo Morales Quotes

Evo Morales quotes

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

2. Mesa should listen to the marginalized. He should be with the people, not with the empire.

3. Friends, we have now won. ...I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we [indigenous people] are going to be presidents. And I want to say to businesses, intellectual professionals, and artists: do not abandon us.

4. I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chavez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

5. Cuba is a democracy.

6. [Morales] should reflect upon the historic opportunity of moving to the center.

7. Evo asked me if I was the real Zapatero. he he ha ha

1. As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

2. Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

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

4. 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.

5. Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

6. [In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

7. There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

8. Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth.

9. In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.

10. We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.

11. Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

12. The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.

13. I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

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