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There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#fail #individual #live #must #own

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia. ↗

— Evo Morales

#democratic #i #just #voice

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world. ↗

— Evo Morales

#degrees #four #given #imagine #increase

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

#allows #before #bolivia #changing #country

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. ↗

— Evo Morales

#continue #destruction #earth #easy #families

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. ↗

— Evo Morales

#been #bolivia #brought #capitalist #disasters

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

#cannot #earth #human #human beings #humans

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

#been #between #bilateral #bolivia #characterized

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#aside #changing #consumption #debt #earth

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. ↗

— Evo Morales

#act #america #basic #basic principles #consists