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• The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

  Eduardo Galeano

  War, Civilization, Names

  Interview with Kevin Murphy, www.oregonlive.com. July 2, 2009.

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• If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?

  Eduardo Galeano

  World, Way, Upside Down

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• Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Top Down, Challenges, Charity

  "Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World". Book by Eduardo Galeano, 2000.

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• Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Reality, Destiny, Answers

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• The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, Breathing, Punishment

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• If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Sleep, Past, Goes On

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• The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

  Eduardo Galeano

  War, World, Culture

  "Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia'" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2013.

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• Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Heart, Records

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• The walls are the publishers of the poor.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Wall, Writing, Poor

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• I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Rain, Flower, Fall

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• In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Powerful, World, Wealth

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.267, NYU Press

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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 language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Beautiful, Twilight, Effectiveness

  Eduardo Galeano (1983). “Days and Nights”, p.177, NYU Press

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• Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Book, Greatness, Trying

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• I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Ignorance, America

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• The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Greatness, Racism, Rainbow

  "Eduardo Galeano on Writing, “Historical Amnesia” in Latin America & His Fight Against Cancer". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

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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 how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But 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 of large media groups.

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  Dream, Media, Hands

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• Globalization has considerably accelerated in recent years following the dizzying expansion of communications and transport and the equally stupefying transnational mergers of capital. We must not confuse globalization with "internationalism" though. We know that the human condition is universal, that we share similar passions, fears, needs and dreams, but this has nothing to do with the "rubbing out" of national borders as a result of unrestricted capital movements. One thing is the free movement of peoples, the other of money.

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  Dream, Money, Communication

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• The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Latin, Believe

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.261, NYU Press

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• Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.

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  Art, Laughter, Long

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• Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

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  Charity, Helping, Solidarity

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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 collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."

  Eduardo Galeano

  Views, Growth, Criminals

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• Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

  Eduardo Galeano

  War, Fighting, Names

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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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  Soccer, Team, Party

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• I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Education, Past, Museums

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