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.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.