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"I could not commit the levity of allowing Brazil to be divided."

— João Goulart

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-A Caixa Preta do Golpe de 64. Paulo de Mello Bastos. 2006. Page: 283. ISBN 8589853047

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"It is regrettable that still large parts of the population that have had access to higher education remain insensitive to the national reality."

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"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".

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