Our defeat was always implicit in the victory.... : Quote by Eduardo Galeano

“ Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. ”

Eduardo Galeano
  • From : Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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