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Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

— Eduardo Galeano Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World (2000)

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The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.

As the owners of heaven forbade chocolate to mortals, so the owners of earth forbade it to commoners.

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009)

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

The Book of Embraces (1991)

Open Veins’ tried to be a book of political economy, but I didn’t yet have the necessary training or preparation

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