“Essere giovane e non essere rivoluzionario è una contraddizione perfino biologica.” - I vecchi giovani e i giovani vecchi - discorso tenuto nel dicembre del 1972 “Ser joven y no ser revolucionario, es una contradicción hasta biológica.” - a una gran cantidad de estudiantes de la Universidad de Guadalajara en México.” JuventudRevoluciónSperanzaGioventùRivoluzioneAllende Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” FirstsSelfGovernmentMightDemocraticUnitySocialismTransitionBureaucracyOwing Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” YearsGovernmentTodayThreeFrontsMinistersSocialistChile Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” YearsBelieveStillsI BelieveSocialistParliamentUtopianI Still Believe Author:Salvador Allende
“Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.” PeopleKindDifferentConsciousOrganizedDifferent Kinds Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” IfsNeedsSaidMatterLeftLeaderStudentsGood Students Author:Salvador Allende
“First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.” FirstsLeftLeaderObligationAcademic Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” NeedsSaidHardAchieveProduceHard WorkIncreaseWorkersAverageProductionsIncomeAnnualsChile Author:Salvador Allende
“People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them.” PeopleAblePleasure Author:Salvador Allende
“There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.” GroupsLeftistsMatured Author:Salvador Allende
“It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.” MeanPossibilityHarderSocialismOpposition Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” IfsWantTreated Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” CountryLevelsPayDevelopmentHigherSellsExpensiveGoodsHigher LevelChile Author:Salvador Allende
“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?"” WantGivingBelieveHappensAsksI BelievePresidentMake It Happen Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” MenGivingSelfPoliticalTypeHappeningsCriticismLettersGive MeInstructionCubaSense Of SelfCastroSelf Criticism Author:Salvador Allende
“Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.” CountryRealityLeader Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” DifferentRealityGovernmentDictatorshipCubaChile Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” PeopleHandsFightingForceIntegrityInstrumentsGuaranteesFascistsArmed ForcesSaboteursChileans Author:Salvador Allende
“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.” WayUseProblemRealityAdvantageAdaptingChileEmployingColonistsChileans Author:Salvador Allende
