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" Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same. "
Sukarno
Crush
Change
Goal
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" Even a child, if he looks at a map of the world, can point out that the Indonesian archipelago forms one unity. On the map, there can be shown a unity of the group of islands between two great oceans - the Pacific Ocean and the Indies Ocean - and between two continents - the continent of Asia and the continent of Australia. "
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World
Unity
" It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties. "
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Myself
Food
" Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction! "
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Revolution
" If I used to say that Indonesia would be free when the corn ripens, I can now say that Indonesia will be free before it blossoms. "
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Will
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" I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary. "
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I Am
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" The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment. "
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Us
Principle
Economy
" If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone. "
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Business
Aid
Alone
" I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text... that is the action of a coward! "
Sukarno
Action
Coward
Myself
" Hatta always gave the impression of rain. If I was in a real good mood and full of ideas and then happened to encounter Hatta, I felt I was suddenly surprised by a shower of rain and got wet all over the body. My good mood was gone, and also my ideas. "
Sukarno
Ideas
Rain
Always
" What America did in Vietnam and the Congo - we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of burning USIS books. We deplore it. But we can understand the motives of the students. "
Sukarno
America
Understand
Result
" If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.' "
Sukarno
You
Say
Nation
" Peking welcomed me with tremendous parades and gun salutes. The people with me are proud of me, proud that our downtrodden country has taken its place among the great nations. And now, people of America, I ask you, why didn't Eisenhower accord me the same respect? "
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Proud
Respect
America
" Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future. "
Sukarno
Us
Past
Keep
" At least Russia and China didn't call us names when we smiled sweetly at America. "
Sukarno
Russia
Names
China
" I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required. "
Sukarno
Democracy
Desire
Party
" We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.' "
Sukarno
Feel
Free
Great
" I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend? "
Sukarno
America
Friend
Up
" No one shrieked, 'We want Bung Hatta.' I did not need him. Just as also I did not need Sjahrir, who refused to show himself at the time of the reading of the Proclamation. Indeed, I could do it myself, and indeed, I did it alone. "
Sukarno
Time
Alone
Myself
" Never, ever forget history. "
Sukarno
Never
Ever
Forget
" I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila. "
Sukarno
Unhappy
Asylum
I Am
" I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists. "
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Stand
Start
Always
" The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people. "
Sukarno
Revolution
People
Defense
" We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without. "
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Within
Face
Nation
" How terrifically dynamic is our time! We can mobilize all the spiritual, all the moral, all the political strength of Africa and Asia on the side of peace. Yes, we! We, the people of Asia and Africa! "
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Time
Spiritual
People
" Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million. "
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Rich
Resources
Natural
" The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately. "
Sukarno
Ground
Time
Common Ground
" Our socialism does not include extreme materialistic concepts, since Indonesia is primarily a God-fearing, God-loving nation. Our socialism is a mixture. We draw political equality from the American Declaration of Independence. We draw spiritual equality from Islam and Christianity. We draw scientific equality from Marx. "
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Spiritual
Political
Equality
" I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world. "
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Struggle
Small
World
" What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio. "
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Effort
Saying
Up
" Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone. "
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Peaceful
Free
Alone