“Beyond my fear I felt the need to defend my identity, to not let them turn me into a thing or a number.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
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… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security,… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I had not suffered enough to find the rage in my guts I needed to struggle to death for my freedom.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back! — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
