HOPE: Voices of Wisdom from Central and South America

In these 862 quotes from Central and South America, poets, clergymen, journalists, activists, and singer-songwriters reach out to empower and inspire the reader. Their insights offer solutions to life's doubts and disillusions while inviting us to explore global preoccupations and consider their relevance to our own lives. The first of seven books of global quotes, HOPE captures the voices of visionaries like Pablo Neruda, Victor Jara, Eduardo Galeano, and Tupac Amaru II - people who struggled for justice and dignity as they explored the human experience. Through Central and South American * prose, speeches, letters, interviews, and blogs * poetry and songs * rallying cries, posters, and graffiti * proverbs (the wisdom of the elders) we meet courageous men and women who fought for their dreams and lived with character and dedication. Singer-songwriters like Ali Primera and poets like Violeta Parra? have always been grounded in a commitment to the common man as they explore the joys and mysteries of life. Journalists and novelists like Mario Benedetti expose corruption and betrayal, risking their lives to share the stories of miners and farmers and street protesters. Witnesses like Rigoberta Mench? transform their memories into testimony and memoirs, while bloggers report from cities under siege, recalling the words of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero: "We must be the voice for the voiceless." The quotes are organized around eighteen themes: Action, Enlightenment, Exile and Migration, Global Family and Friends, Good and Evil, Hardship, Hope, Justice, Liberty, Life and Death, Love, Nation, Peace, Power, Solidarity, Struggle, Truth, and War. Whether the reader is navigating a bleak and lonely winter of the soul or simply seeking daily inspiration, these individuals offer fresh and contemporary perspectives: Ariel Dorfman Berta Caceres Caetano Veloso Che Guevara Chico Buarque Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Eduardo Galeano Ernesto Che Guevara Chico Buarque Gian Franco Pagliaro Gilberto Gil Horacio Quiroga Jacobo Timerman Jorge Mario Bergoglio / Pope Francis Jose Alberto Pepe Mujica Cordano Jose Francisco de San Martin y Matorras Luiz Lula da Silva Luz Perly C?rdoba Mosquera Mar?a Elena Walsh Maria Eva Duarte de Peron Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia / Mario Benedett Mario Vargas Llosa Mart?n Almada Mercedes Sosa Michele Bachelet Miguel Angel Asturias Rosales Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Nicanor ParraO RappaOscar Arnulfo Romero Patricio Manns Paulo Coehlo de Souza Pele Quilapayun Patricio Aylwin Az?car Ricardo Elicer Neftali Reyes Basoalto / Pablo Neruda Rigoberta Menchu Tum Roberto Sosa Roque Antonio Garcia / Roque Dalton Ruben Blades Salvador Allende Sergio Ortega Torquato Neto Valent?n Oliva / Wos Victor Lidio Jara Martinez / Victor Jara Victor Ramon Cournou Heredia / Victor Heredia Vin?cius De Moraes Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval / Violeta Parra and dozens more