Eduardo Galeano Quotes

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.