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Eduardo Galeano has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
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Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and…
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From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building…
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In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
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It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his…
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The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come,…
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The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
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We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers…
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Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a…
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To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked…
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The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to…
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A pretty move, for the love of God.
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
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I will watch over My flock by night (Isaiah 27:3). Behold, I have appointed My ministers as your watchmen, as overseers who…
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Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone…
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And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at…
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Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people…
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The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ...
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Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression…
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Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?…
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Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of…
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