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.
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so
What difference is there in the color of the soul?
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