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We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees.
Conversations With Allende (1970)
We start from different ideological positions. For you, to be a Communist or a Socialist is to be totalitarian; for me no.… On the contrary, I think Socialism frees man.
The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves.
Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years.
Interview with Saul Landau (1971)
Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life.
They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.
Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny.
I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to his country.
As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it.… Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism.
Conversations With Allende (1970)
Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!
Now the question is, "Who is going to use whom?" Even accepting the form of the question, the answer is the proletariat. If it wasn't so I wouldn't be here. I am working for Socialism and through Socialism.
Conversations With Allende (1970)
Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that.
I am not the president of all the Chileans. I am not a hypocrite that says so.
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