43 Quotes About Latin-america
- Author Warren Eyster
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Those men have never done anything in their lives except stare at the clouds and the stars. The Indians take them food and tobacco, and on certain evenings gather around the fire as they tell their tribesmen all the strange thoughts and dreams which they have had. Huicholes believe that men cannot have pure thoughts if they are required to participate in the daily tasks of life.
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- Author Eduardo Galeano
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The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk.
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- Author Eduardo Galeano
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Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.
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- Author James Barrett Reston
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The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.
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- Author Eduardo Galeano
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Bernal Diaz del Castillo, faithful comrade of Hernán Cortes in the conquest of Mexico, wrote that they had arrived in America “to serve God and His Majesty and also to get riches.
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- Author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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yo me digo "Señor, otras repúblicas de América descienden igualmente de españoles, y viven sin considerar necesaria una revolución cada dos años...". ¿Se han fijado ustedes que en la América de origen español todas las cosas malas son siempre "¡cosas de España!", y rara vez se les ocurre atribuir a la pobre vieja algunas buenas?...
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- Author Antonio Gil
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Ah, et l'or du Pérou qui (...) se transforme en venin de serpent quand la cupidité mord les hommes de Castille.
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- Author Eduardo Galeano
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Ballad of CuzcoA llama wished to have golden hair, brilliant as the sun,strong as loveand soft as the mist that the dawn dissolves, to weave a braidon which to mark, knot by knot,the moons that pass,the flowers that die -- Salazar Bondy, Sebastián (ed.). Poesía quechua. Montevideo; Arca, 1978. Translated by Eduardo Galeano.
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- Author Gabriel García Márquez
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- Hoje, em circunstâncias iguais, não me tremeria a voz para dar a mesma ordem, nem os europeus teriam autoridade moral para me censurar, pois se há uma história regada de sangue, de indignidade, de injustiças, é a história da Europa. (...) Então nos façam o favor de não nos dizer mais o que devemos fazer. Não tentem nos ensinar como devemos ser, não tentem nos tornar iguais a vocês, não pretendam que façamos bem em vinte anos o que vocês fizeram tão mal em dois mil.
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