Eduardo Galeano

“History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'”

“Many small people, in small places, doing small things, can change the world.”

“I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.”

“Soccer is a pleasure that hurts.”

“The church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: the body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta.”

“Scientists say that we are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are made of stories.”

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”

“Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.”

“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 respects the other person and learns from the other person.”

“The walls are the publishers of the poor.”

“The division of labour among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.”

“In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a king and queen from another world and a god from another sky...”

“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.”

“We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are.”

“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”