Ecuador Quotes

• The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Independent, Ubuntu, Blood

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2010.

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• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  Rafael Correa

  Country, Right To Life

  "Julian Assange asylum application may take time, says Ecuador president" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Anybody whos been to Ecuador wants to go back because its beautiful out there.

  Michael Steger

  Beautiful, Want

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• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

  "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Giving, Missionary, Gains

  "Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, 1958.

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• After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

  Rafael Correa

  Reflection, Decision, President

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• The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

  Annie Dillard

  Rivers, Spectacular

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.

  Juan Luis Guerra

  Beautiful, Land, And Love

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• My family came from Ecuador.

  Jose Garces

  My Family

  "Jose Garces, ‘Iron Chef’ Star, Finds The Latino Road To A Thanksgiving Celebration" by Zuania Ramos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2012.

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• If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.

  Jose Garces

  Culture, Might, Yeah

  "Chef Jose Garces Follows His 'Latin Road Home'". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.

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• The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Opposites

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I like the girls in Ecuador. They are more gentle and trusting, more innocent. They are not as suspicious of strangers as Colombian girls.

  Pedro

  Girl, Stranger, Innocent

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• Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Perspective, Political, Gone

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Reality, Impact

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?

  Julian Assange

  Police, Asylums, Facts

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.S. extradition case, and the result was that after a month, I was successful in my asylum application. The embassy since then has been surrounded by police: quite an expensive police operation which the British government admits to spending more than £12.6 million.

  Julian Assange

  Successful, Government, Police

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.

  Julian Assange

  Years, White, Giving

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• [The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Assessment, Trying, United States

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and the western powers, they already have a more favorable economic development, and even a better social development.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Order, Development, Bolivia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• RAW is very forgiving. I was photographing a farm woman in Ecuador cooking over a small fire and my fill flash didn't go off a few times. I was about to delete the RAW files but decided to play with the curves first because I like the composition. It turned out that the image, although underexposed by two stops, was better than the fill-flashed images because the fire was the only source of illumination and it looked more real.

  Peter Menzel

  Real, Fire, Curves

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• I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Song, New Experiences, Korea

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• I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Party, America

  "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role... that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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