South America

Explore 10 quotes by people from South America

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Che Guevara

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Topic

Conditions for revolution Revolution Revolutionary politics Politics

Author

Che Guevara

Source

Libération (Newspaper)

Medium

Interview

Language

Spanish

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Guevara, Che. Interviewed by Boualam Rouissi. Libération, 17-23 Mar. 1965.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Lost love Getting over someone Broken heart Love

Author

Pablo Neruda

Source

Tonight I Can Write (Puedo Escribir Los Versos) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Medium

Love poem Poem

Language

Spanish

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Puedo Escribir [Tonight I Can Write]." Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada [Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]. 1924.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Tonight I Can Write." Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W. S. Merwin. Penguin Classics, 2006.

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

Pope Francis

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Topic

Asking for forgiveness Forgiveness of sins Forgiveness

Speaker

Pope Francis

Source

Catholic News Agency

Medium

Sermon

Language

Italian

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Pope Francis. "God Never Tires of Forgiving Us, Pope Reflects." Catholic News Agency, 28 Mar. 2014. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/god-never-tires-of-forgiving-us-pope-reflects. Originally a mass meeting. 28 Mar. 2014, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

How long does a man spend dying?

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Nature of death Death

Author

Pablo Neruda

Source

And How Long?

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

Spanish

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Y cuanto vive? [And how long?]." Extravagaria. Losada, 1958.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Y cuanto vive?/And how long?" Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition, translated by Alistair Reid. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Topic

Martyrdom Religious observance Piety Religion

Author

Jorge Luis Borges

Source

Deutsches Requiem El Aleph

Medium

Short story

Language

Spanish

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." Sur, Feb. 1946.

Current Citation

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." The Aleph and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Hurley. Penguin Classics, 2004.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly, a lasting peace cannot be secured without the support of all.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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Topic

Peace

Speaker

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula da. Address to United Nations. United Nations General Assembly. 23 Sept. 2003, New York, NY, USA.

I did not come here to solve anything.
I came to sing,
And for you to sing with me.

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Purpose of poetry Poetry

Author

Pablo Neruda

Source

Que Despierte El Leñador

Medium

Poem

Language

Spanish

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Neruda, Pablo. Que Despierte El Leñador. Colección Yagruma, 1948.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Jules Laforgue

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Topic

Nature of life Spending time Passage of time Life

Author

Jules Laforgue

Source

Les Complaintes

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Laforgue, Jules. "Complainte sur certains ennuis." Les Complaintes. Paris: Léon Vanier, 1885.

Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope.

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Hope Fighting for justice Justice Progress Politics

Speaker

Pablo Neruda

Source

Toward the Splendid City (Speech)

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Language

Spanish

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 13 Dec. 1971, Stockholm, Sweden.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Nobel Lectures in Literature, 1968-1980. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

Pope Francis

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Topic

Homosexuality Judging others Grace Catholicism

Speaker

Pope Francis

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Statement Type

Question

Language

Italian

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pope Francis. "On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, 'Who Am I to Judge?" The New York Times, July 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/pope-francis-gay-priests.html