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“The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?”

Thinking Knows Men Real America Black White Revolution Latin White Man Asia Scope Latin America Sweeping Cuban Cuban Revolution

Author:Malcolm X

“In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.”

Has Beens Inspiration America Behinds Struggle Particular Poet Independence Latin Cuba Latin America Struggle For Freedom

Author:Margarita Engle

“Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.”

Reality America Latin Latin America Surrealism

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.”

Problem America Mistake Priorities Latin Somewhere Else Latin America Overlooked

Author:Sebastian Pinera

“The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.”

Way Two War States Able Nations United Break United States Doctrine Civil War Latin Anxious Latin America Colonization Latin American Monroe Doctrine

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.”

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Author:Fidel Castro

“I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.”

Wanted America Pieces Liberation Latin Latin America Small Pieces

Author:Che Guevara

“The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.”

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Book:Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

Source: Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

“I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms”

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Author:Stephen Stills

“Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.”

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Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.”

Source: Haiti After the Earthquake

“Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.”

“The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?”

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Author:Ted Simon

“I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.”

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Author:Ahmed Ben Bella

“I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.”

Country Home America Students Decided Inspired Regions Latin Latin America Home Country

Author:Jenna Bush

“I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.”

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Author:Jenna Bush

“I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.”

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Author:Craig Kielburger

“The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.”

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Author:Kim Il-sung

“Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.”

Country America Poverty Economic Development Crisis Financial Prosperity Russia Latin Asia Latin America Financial Crisis Globalisation

Author:Anna Lindh

“Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.”

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Book:The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America

Source: The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America

“In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.”

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Author:Lin Biao

“Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.”

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Author:Lin Biao

“Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.”

“Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.”

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Author:Terri Windling

“I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.”

Has Beens Country America Drug Fairs Victim Latin Loser Stereotype Latin America Not Fair

Author:Ricky Martin

“There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.”

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Author:Barbara Amiel

“Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.”

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Author:Alfonso Garcia Robles

“An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.”

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Author:Martin Feldstein

“We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.”

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Author:Evo Morales

“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”

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Author:Alvaro Uribe

“The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.”

Source: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.”

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Author:Eduardo Galeano

“I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.”

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Author:Bianca Jagger

“Of course I'm a black writer... I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.”

Source: The church, change, and development

“I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.”

Knows World May Happens America Ignorance Blind Population Latin Deaf Percentages Frontiers Latin America

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.”

America Catholic Atheist Latin Latin America

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.”

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Author:Morena Baccarin

“In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.”

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Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.”

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Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.”

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Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.”

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Author:Alma Guillermoprieto

“According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.”

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Author:Luis Gutierrez

“One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.”

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