Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.
Interpretation
Indignation is a necessary response to disrespect and injustice, reminding us that our reality can change.
In this quote, Eduardo Galeano emphasizes the importance of responding to indignity with indignation, suggesting that feelings of outrage are justified when faced with injustice. He also challenges the idea of inevitability, asserting that our current reality is not fated but can be altered through our actions and perspectives.
In practice
During a speech on civil rights, one might say, 'Indignation must always be the answer to indignity.'
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. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
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.
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Godβs sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our adversaries who have practised upon it with no small benefit to their cause. For at the very moment they are eulogizing the reason of men & professing to appeal only to that faculty, they are courting the strongest & most active passion of the human heart - VANITY!
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.
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