Quotes About Oppression

But in District 12, where the word tribute is pretty much synonymous with the word corpse , volunteers are all but extinct.

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

Panem's newest, if not shiniest, Peacekeeper.

Desearia poder encontrar una forma de...de demostrarle al Capitolio que no les pertenezco, que soy algo mas que una pieza de sus juegos.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead. . . .

How you've both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district." Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter.

Safe to do what?" he says in a gentler tone. "Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven't hurt people — you've given them an opportunity.

If we declare our freedom the Capitol collapses.

You can torture us, bombard us, set fire to our districts. But you see that? Fire is catching. And if we burn, you burn with us.

But, even if there aren't, there's no Capital. And that's the main thing for me, isn't it? Not this district or that. Not student or Peacekeeper. It's living in a place where they can't control my life.

Das Feuer breitet sich aus!", schreie ich jetzt, damit Snow auch ja kein Wort verpasst. "Und wenn wir brennen, brennen Sie mit!

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.

The Capitol has no end of creative ways to kill people. I imagine these things and I'm terrified, but let's face it: They've been lurking in the back of my brain, anyway. I've been a tribute in the Games. Been threatened by the president. Taken a lash across my face. I'm already a target.

And then it hits me. They already have. They have kiled her father in those wretched mines. They have sat by as she almost starved to death. They have chosen her as a tribute, then made her watch her sister fight to the death in the Games. She has been hurt far worse than I had at the age of twelve. And even that pales in comparison with Rue's life.

And now Coin, with her fistful of precious nukes and her well-oiled machine of a district, finding it's even harder to groom a Mockingjay than to catch one.

I can only manage to hold on to one simple thought: an image of Snow's face accompanied by the whisper in my head. I will kill you.

I'm being erased, he thought. And to erase me, they must erase the Games.

En el setenta y cinco aniversario, como recordatorio a los rebeldes de que ni siquiera sus miembros más fuertes son rivales para el poder del Capitolio, los tributos elegidos saldrán del grupo de los vencedores.

President Snow used to . . . sell me . . . my body, that is," Finnick begins in a flat, removed tone. "I wasn't the only one. If a victor is considered desirable, the president gives them as a reward or allows people to buy them for an exorbitant amount of money. If you refuse, he kills someone you love. So you do it.

Se contiene lo justo para decir: —Y así, amigos míos, es como muere una revolución.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!" ? Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

One of the few freedoms we have in District 12 is the right to marry who we want or not marry at all. And now even that has been taken away from me. I

Suzanne Collins

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is alive. He is a traitor but alive. I have to keep him alive…