Galeano

"To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media". 

"The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention and punishment have been developed...To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime...State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear". 

"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". 

"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". 

"What happens when we integrate rather than refuse the pain, toil, and doom of surviving?" 

"...not offering financial support structures early on with a very weak attempt at educating and encouraging protective behaviors left more people uninformed, skeptical, angry and vulnerable."

Eduardo Galeano