Eduardo Galeano Quotes
If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?
Galeano, Eduardo. Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World. Translated by Mark Fried, Metropolitan Books, 2000, p. 333.
1st Duke of Wellington
At the time, Capetown was under the control of the Dutch East India Company which had recruited Gordon from Scotland. There was a wave of liberality following the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and the very vocal English, anti-slavery, reformers. The Dutch were concerned mainly with making money, and that they thought that meant stability and the status quo. Gordon was their strong spokesman on this. Like American Southern slave owners, Gordon read the Bible as God endorsing slavery and the inferiority of Blacks. Thus, reformers did not "believe in God any more".
King and his associates along with a large number of students were arrested for protesting racial discrimination in Selma. The Chief of police was told that this is just what King wanted. His was a deliberate attempt to get publicity by arresting and prosecuting a group of ministers and school children. So Chief Baker told King that they were not under arrest. So King went outside the jail where many journalists had congregated, hastily called a press conference, and publicly admitted to deliberately drawing attention to the conditions.
Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".
