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Evita Peron
May 7, 1919 - July 26, 1952
Nationality: Argentinian
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: Argentinian Statesman

I am my own woman.

   

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

   

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

   

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

   

Suffer little children and come unto me.

   

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

   

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

   

Time is my greatest enemy.

   

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

   

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

   

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

   

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

   

I will come again, and I will be millions.

   

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

   

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

   

The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

   

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

   

In government, one actress is enough.

   

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

   

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

   

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