Eduardo Galeano in 21 famous phrases

It’s been a little over a year since an enormous writer, Eduardo Galeano, left. Through his word, which seeps like water through the conscience of everyone who is fortunate enough to read something of his legacy, Galeano manages to awaken our emotions with a melody that makes the transition between sleep and wakefulness a stateTo say the least, beautiful.

This Uruguayan writer, author of international titles such as Memory of fire (1986) and The Open Veins of Latin America (1971), He reflected on the world, love, religion, football and everything that has to do with current events.

Eduardo Galeano phrases to reflect on

Today, with the desire to pay tribute to his person and his career, we bring you 21 phrases that reflect Eduardo Galeano’s great commitment to the world and the great thinker he was.

1- The world is divided, above all, between the unworthy and the indignant, and everyone will know which side they want or can be on…

2- If I fell, it’s because I was walking. AND walking is worth iteven if you fall.

3- REMEMBER: From the Latin re-cordis, to go through the heart again…

4- To not be mute, we must start by not being deaf.

5- Only fools believe that silence is a void. It is never empty. And sometimes the best way to communicate is to remain silent.

6- Now America is, to the world, nothing more than the United States: we inhabit, at most, a sub-America, a second-class America, of nebulous identification. It is Latin America, the region of open veins.

7- If nature were a bank, they would have already saved it.

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8- For me, the only certainties worthy of faith are those that have doubts for breakfast every morning.

9- Does the so-called international community exist? Is it more than a club of merchants, bankers and warriors? Is it something more than the stage name that the United States uses when doing theater?

10- Charity is humiliating because it is exercised vertically and from above; Solidarity is horizontal and implies mutual respect.

eleven- The moral code of the end of the millennium does not condemn injustice, but failure

12- Violence begets violence, as is known; but it also generates profits for the violence industry, which sells it as a spectacle and turns it into an object of consumption.

13- I believe that we were born children of the days, because every day has a story and we are the stories we live…

14- ‎He who is not imprisoned by need, is imprisoned by fear: Some do not sleep because of the anxiety of having the things they do not have, and others do not sleep because of the panic of losing the things they have.

fifteen- love can be provoked, dropping a handful of dust from loving myself, as if carelessly, in the coffee or in the soup or the drink. It can be caused, but it cannot be prevented. Holy water does not prevent it, nor host powder prevents it; The garlic clove is also useless. Love is deaf to the divine Word and the witches’ spell. There is no government decree that can handle it, nor a potion that can prevent it, even though the vendors in the markets proclaim infallible concoctions with guarantees and everything.

16- Poor against poor, as usual: Poverty is too short a blanket, and everyone pulls their own way.

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17- The walls are the printing press of the poor.

18- Hunger eats fear for breakfast. Fear of silence stuns the streets. Fear threatens: If you love, you will have AIDS. If you smoke, you will get cancer. If you breathe, you will have contamination. If you drink, you will have accidents. If you eat, you will have cholesterol. If he speaks, he will have unemployment. If you walk, you will have violence. If you think, you will have anxiety. If you doubt, you will have madness. If you feel, you will have loneliness.

19- Poor children are the ones who suffer the most from the contradiction between a culture that mandates consumption and a reality that prohibits it.

twenty- History is a prophet with his gaze turned back: for what was, and against what was, announces what will be.

twenty-one- Utopia is on the horizon. I take two steps closer, she takes two steps away. I walk ten steps and the horizon moves ten steps further.

Galeano’s teachings

Surely with these phrases from Eduardo Galeano we have awakened the desire to return or to encounter its pages for the first time.. Something that will certainly not disappoint anyone. His teachings, his vision of the world and the reflections collected in these phrases make clear a Galeano who has a lot to offer us.

Have you read anything by this author? Which of the previous phrases would you choose? They are all wonderful, but surely there is one that has impacted you more than another.