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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".

— João Goulart

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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."

"...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."

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The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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