Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
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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.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
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I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.
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I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.
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Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.