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“I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.”

Quote by Ingrid Betancourt

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Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt is a Colombian politician born on December 25, 1961. She served as a senator in Colombia and was taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2002. During her six-year captivity, she demonstrated remarkable courage and resilience. In 2006, she was successfully rescued, becoming a global symbol of bravery and determination. more

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“I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.”

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“If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.”

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“Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.”

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“There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling us with wrong information about the others or giving privileges to some so that the others would feel jealous and would react. And I could see how they were manipulating us.”

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“For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to escape and that I needed to get back to my family and to my children no matter what. And that I could not accept to just see them as an authority, that I had to always keep in mind that I had to rebel and to keep my distance and to protect my soul because the core of the problem is dignity.”

“Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.”

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“If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.”

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