18 Evo Morales Quotes for You to Enjoy

Evo Morales

Statesman

Born: Oct 26, 1959

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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

Environmental Rights Mother Will Live Too Later Earth Recognise Must Sooner Sooner Or Later Know Mother Earth Without Human Human Beings Pollution Cannot Mankind Planet Beings Humans

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment. Evo Morales

People Better Live Believe Living Our Neighbors Cost More Consuming Environment Instead Concept Well Wanting Regardless

In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. Evo Morales

Government Racism People Ending Colonialism First Changes President Our Presidential Our People Entered Slogan Indigenous Main Exclusion La Square Committed Centuries Many Bolivia Lived Palace

The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect. Evo Morales

Government Relationship Respect Difficult Worldwide Relations States Characterized Mutual Mutual Respect Indigenous Between Always Been Just Movements Social Bilateral Bolivia United United States Need

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States. Evo Morales

Mind States Permanent Being United United States Nightmare

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

Change Impossible Change Things Way See Without Things Resistance

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. Evo Morales

Wealth Animals Hair National Skin Our Alienated Once City Indian Raw Raw Materials Excluded Like Majority Always Vermin Came Materials Were Oppressed Politically Whenever Bolivia Population Here Treated

In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state - after the nationalization, after changing the law - Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly 10 million inhabitants, this allows us to increase the national economy. Evo Morales

Law Country Year National Before Increase Changing President State Only Small Small Country Had Economy National Economy After Us Inhabitants Bolivia Nearly Million Received Last Last Year

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

Time People Our Latin Latin America Our People Solution Economic Argentina Simply Countries Economies Like Venezuela Globalization Been Model America Same Same Time Again Growing Rejected