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.
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.
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