Ingrid Betancourt Quotes
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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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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More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
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I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.
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I love Colombia's military. I love my country.
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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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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'