Ingrid Betancourt Zitate auf Englisch

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I love Colombia's military. I love my country.

You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

Ingrid Betancourt

I love Colombia's military. I love my country.

Ingrid Betancourt

More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

Ingrid Betancourt

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

In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

Ingrid Betancourt

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

Ingrid Betancourt

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.

Ingrid Betancourt

You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

Ingrid Betancourt

These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

Ingrid Betancourt

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.

Ingrid Betancourt

It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

Ingrid Betancourt

When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

Ingrid Betancourt

You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

Ingrid Betancourt

I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

Ingrid Betancourt

I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

Ingrid Betancourt

The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.

Ingrid Betancourt

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

Ingrid Betancourt

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

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

Ingrid Betancourt

In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

Ingrid Betancourt

On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

Ingrid Betancourt

In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.

Ingrid Betancourt

I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.

Ingrid Betancourt

After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

Ingrid Betancourt