- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
- Indigenous People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I was fortunate enough to achieve my dreams on the court, I have done my best to, in turn, help young people achieve theirs.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
In team tennis, when you're downed, you play harder because there are other people depending upon you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020