Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded. Evo Morales More Quotes by Evo Morales More Quotes From Evo Morales We're winning the battle against the fire, our response has been rapid and effective. Evo Morales environment If you smoke a cigarette and toss it out it'll spark and there's a fire. Evo Morales environment Our fight is for there to never again be an American base in Bolivia, the United States was the owner of Bolivia. Our struggle has always been to recover our homeland and dignity. Evo Morales world Why five more years? To finish our great works. We feel strong; we have self-esteem; and with these crowds giving us energy we will guarantee the liberation of Bolivia forever. Evo Morales world Any armed intervention wont solve social, or political, problems, i salute the resistance of the Venezuelan people, despite the economic blockade, the energy blackouts, the threats of intervention. Evo Morales world In many historic moments, the Church was used for domination, subjugation and oppression. Now the Bolivian people receive you with joy and hope, we welcome you as the chief representative of the Catholic Church coming to support the liberation of our Bolivian peoples. Evo Morales top-news Understood this way, prosperity, instead of helping, breeds conflict. Evo Morales top-news I'm concerned but not afraid. Evo Morales world 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. Evo Morales nature together justice people 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 ending government racism people I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States. Evo Morales being united-states permanent mind 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 small year law country We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia. Evo Morales problems sea together time 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 mother food water people We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue. Evo Morales continue will change process 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 know government leader people Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country! Evo Morales destroy our country
