Rodolfo Walsh

Novelist Journalist Argentine 1927 – 1977

Argentine writer and political activist.

365 quotes

"Silence is the collaborator's choice."
Philosophy
"The testimony of the oppressed is the testimony of truth."
Justice
"To write is to refuse invisibility."
Creativity
"Freedom requires the courage to investigate."
Freedom
"Every suppressed document is a victory for power."
Politics
"The disappeared live on in investigation."
Hope
"Truth is the fortress that tyrants cannot breach."
Wisdom
"A life of witness is a life of purpose."
Life
"To document suffering is to honor suffering."
"The pen writes what power wants erased."
Literature
"Justice begins where investigation begins."
Justice
"Fear is the weapon; truth is the shield."
Courage
"Every word is a choice between complicity and resistance."
Philosophy
"The archive is democracy's memory."
History
"To question everything is to remain truly alive."
Wisdom
"The truth cannot be killed, only temporarily buried."
Truth
"Writing for truth is writing for generations unborn."
Inspiration
"Every disappeared person deserves immortality through investigation."
"The journalist is the guardian of what must not be forgotten."
Leadership
"To investigate is to refuse death its victory."
Perseverance
"Freedom grows in the soil of uncomfortable questions."
Freedom
"The truth is the only inheritance worth leaving."
Family
"Courage is the decision to speak despite the cost."
Courage
"To write is to defy the erasure of history."
Creativity
"The silence of the powerful is the loudest lie."
Justice
"Every fact is a small victory against oblivion."
Hope
"To question is sacred; to doubt is freedom."
Freedom
"The past demands witnesses in the present."
Time
"Truth is the inheritance of those who dare to investigate."
Knowledge
"The pen is mightier than all the weapons of forgetting."
Art