Hugo Chavez Quotes

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• Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.

  Hugo Chavez

  Rights, People, Water

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

  Hugo Chavez

  Dog, Jobs, People

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• What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

  Hugo Chavez

  Hurt, Poverty, Rebel

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• I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

  Hugo Chavez

  World, Path, Socialism

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• Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, Impossible, Injustice

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• We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

  Hugo Chavez

  Competition, Unions, Saws

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can't be transcended from with capitalism itself, but through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.

  Hugo Chavez

  Justice, Doubt, Everyday

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.

  Hugo Chavez

  Hate, Hair, Racism

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• Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

  Hugo Chavez

  Snakes, Fascists, Humans

  "Shut up, Spain's king tells Chavez". news.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2007.

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• If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

  Hugo Chavez

  Climate, Saved, Ifs

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• I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.

  Hugo Chavez

  Jobs, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

  Hugo Chavez

  Home, Talking, Smell

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 2006

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• We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

  Hugo Chavez

  Environmental, World, Privileged

  "World summit in quotes". Hugo Chavez's remarks at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, news.bbc.co.uk. September 4, 2002.

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• We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

  Hugo Chavez

  Economic Models, Socialism, Lifestyle

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• The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, World, Way

  "Hugo Chávez grants rare interview to western media" by Stephen Sackur, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.

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• The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

  Hugo Chavez

  World, Imperialism, Threat

  "Chavez appears with Castro in TV broadcast" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. August 22, 2005.

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• Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did.

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  Israel, Done, Nazi

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• Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

  Hugo Chavez

  Jesus, Eye, Thinking

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• Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.

  Hugo Chavez

  Oil, Hemisphere, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

  Hugo Chavez

  Weakness, Imperialism, Resorts

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

  Hugo Chavez

  Gaddafi, Fighter, Remember

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• The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

  Hugo Chavez

  Path, Revolution, Violent

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• What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

  Hugo Chavez

  Want, What You Want, One Thing

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

  Hugo Chavez

  Brother, Father, Order

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• But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

  Hugo Chavez

  Democracy, Cuba, Revolutionary

  "Chavez appears with Castro in TV broadcast" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. August 22, 2005.

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