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.
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Although it is important to study and train for skill in techniques, for the man who wishes to truly accomplish the way of budo, it is important to makehis whole life in training and therefore not aiming for skill and strength alone, but also for spiritual attainment.
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
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