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In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

Eduardo Galeano

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Eduardo Galeano
Age: 74 †
Born: 1940
Born: September 3
Died: 2015
Died: April 13
Journalist
Poet
Writer
Eduardo Hughes Galeano
Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
Eduardo German Maria Hughes Galeano
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Always
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Antiwar
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Struggle

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I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
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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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...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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The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.
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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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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
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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.
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We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.
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Memory. My poison, my food.
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Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.
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For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
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