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We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.

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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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Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.
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Recordar: To remember from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart
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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
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The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
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If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
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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 job on the line.
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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.
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I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
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The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.
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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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I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.
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I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
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For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
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The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.
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Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.
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Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
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