Salvador Allende Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.”
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“I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.
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“The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America, July 2003.
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“Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“People can progress only by working and producing more.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“I believe that every president wants to give everyone work but they can't; they want everyone to eat but they can't make it happen. The same happens with education. So we have to ask ourselves, "Why can't we do anything?"”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“I have been to Cuba many times. I have spoken many times with Fidel Castro and got to know Commander Ernesto Guevara well enough. I know Cuba's leaders and their struggle. It has been difficult to overcome the blockade. But the reality in Cuba is very different from that in Chile. Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“I can't spend my whole day talking to people.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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“I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today.”
-- Salvador AllendeSource : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
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