João Goulart Quotes
1918–1976 Brazil
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"I could not commit the levity of allowing Brazil to be divided."
"It is regrettable that still large parts of the population that have had access to higher education remain insensitive to the national reality."
"I won't trade one Brazilian worker for a hundred of these tidy little grandfins."
"What threatens democracy is hunger, it is misery, it is the disease of those who have no resources to face it. These are the evils that can threaten democracy, but never the people in the public square in the use of their legitimate and democratic rights".
"...Our motto, Brazilian workers, is progress with justice, and development with equality..."
"The image projected in Veja Magazine about my life in exile, presenting me as a rich landlord, oblivious to the problems of the homeland, does not reflect reality."
"the American will overthrow me by phone if he wants to."
"...I will only return to my country through the front door, democratically. My duty, my right is to remain quiet, one day History judges me”
"Agrarian reform is not the whim of a government or the program of a party. It is the product of the pressing need of all the peoples of the world..."
"It is, therefore, understandable that it deeply displeases the conscience of the Brazilian people any form of intervention in an American State, inspired by the allegation of incompatibility with its political regime, to impose on it the practice of the representative system by external coercive means, which take away its democratic character and validity."