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Quote by Gabriel García Márquez
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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The quote answers oppression, plundering, and abandonment with “life”—a refusal to let those harms define the response. It presents living, continuing, and affirming life as the chosen answer to destruction and neglect.
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