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From Quotes by Eduardo Galeano
- Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a…
- From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a…
- The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
- The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day
- ...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands…
- I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It…
- And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol…
- Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart
- In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed…
- The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by…
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