Galeano does not profess to speak for the voiceless, yet his works amplify the muted calls for dignity and justness that have resounded for many thousands of years from the mouths of the silenced | All our countries were born of a lie |
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This book helps in putting this in perspective, that nothing has really changed in terms of human discrimination and injustice | Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, this book is absolutely wonderful |
"and "Black hands built the White House | My modus operandi is that I would rather be informed and depressed than naive and content |
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" We are going to fail him big time | It is a history of the world, in anecdotes beginning from the Sumerian cuneiforms to the 21st century, and it is a sad history, of slavery, racism, gender discrimination, colonialism and autocracy, and each of these exists today as well |
All of these items combine, by their selection and execution, to express a view of world history, wherein the privileged few abuse their advantage and the defeated and impoverished are blamed for their condition I really admire this book.
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