#ow

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. ↗

— Evo Morales

#almost #before #bolivia #cities #enter

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

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

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. ↗

— Evo Morales

#bank #best #best way #dirty #down

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

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#fine #i #level #low #me

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#attempt #characterization #down #else #i

There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#everyone #guess #know #like #me

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#concern #going #how #little #reinventing

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#going #hear #learn #power #power structure