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… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I… — Evo Morales Copy Share
Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded. — Evo Morales Copy Share
Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the… — Evo Morales Copy Share
Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best… — Evo Morales Copy Share
[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together… — Evo Morales Copy Share
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the… — Evo Morales Copy Share
Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled… — Evo Morales Copy Share
In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama… — Evo Morales Copy Share
We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to… — Evo Morales Copy Share
The chicken that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these chickens, they deviate from themselves as men. — Evo Morales Copy Share
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment. — Evo Morales Copy Share
The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere. — Evo Morales Copy Share
