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During my captivity, I felt a...

During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

I was in chains all the time,...

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

At first, I didn't want to ac...

At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

I didn't want to accept that ...

I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

France is my home; you are my...

France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.

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As a Colombian, the only way ...

As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.

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When you lose your freedom, y...

When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

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In Colombia, women are a huge...

In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

In Colombia today we have 16%...

In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

Nothing that I can encounter ...

Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

I think that the security in ...

I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

There was humiliations, cruel...

There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling us with wrong information about the others or giving privileges to some so that the others would feel jealous and would react. And I could see how they were manipulating us.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

What we have in Colombia is a...

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

If you begin to have a relati...

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

Whatever you could do with yo...

Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.

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Our life capital is measured ...

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

Sometimes you hear in the Uni...

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

If my goal is to change Colom...

If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.

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I called my party the Green O...

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

I was discovering that the mo...

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

Ingrid Betancourt 31 quotes

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