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Quotes About Resistance

aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?
~ Suzanne Collins
We burn, you burn with us.
~ Suzanne Collins
Katniss...how do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you...in Thirteen..." He inhales sharply, as if fighting for air; his eyes look insane. "Dead by morning!
~ Suzanne Collins
But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? It doesn't change anything. It doesn't make things fair. It doesn't fill our stomachs. In fact it scares off nearby game.
~ Suzanne Collins
Quieren conocerte Katniss! -Es que no quiero quue me conozcan! Ya mme han quitado el futuro! No pueden llevarse tambien lo que me importaba en el pasado!
~ Suzanne Collins
Even if the rebel forces could somehow overthrow the Capitol, you can be sure President Snow's last act would be to cut Peeta's throat. No. I will never get him back. So then dead is best.
~ Suzanne Collins
You're the mockingjay Katniss. While you live, the revolution lives.
~ Suzanne Collins
Tu sei la ghiandaia imitratrice, Katniss. Finché sei viva, vive anche la rivoluzione.
~ Suzanne Collins
Win and rain might wash away the blood stains but Capitol hands would not.
~ Suzanne Collins
I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.
~ Suzanne Collins
But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow. Not very pretty daydreams for a seventeen-year-old girl, I guess, but very satisfying.
~ Suzanne Collins
Real rebels don't put a secret symbol on something as durable as jewelry. They put it on a wafer of bread that can be eaten in a second if necessary.
~ Suzanne Collins
This is what they do! And we must fight back! Fire is Catching. And if we Burn, you Burn with us!
~ Suzanne Collins
Desearia poder encontrar una forma de...de demostrarle al Capitolio que no les pertenezco, que soy algo mas que una pieza de sus juegos.
~ Suzanne Collins
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.
~ Suzanne Collins
If we declare our freedom the Capitol collapses.
~ Suzanne Collins
If history teaches you anything, it's how to make the unwilling comply.
~ Suzanne Collins
He hastily calls Finnick and Haymitch over and they have a brief but intense conversation that I can see Haymitch isn't happy with. Plutarch seems to win – Finnick's pale but nodding his head by the end of it. As Finnick moves to take my seat before the camera, Haymitch tells him, "You don't have to do this." "Yes, I do. If it will help her.
~ Suzanne Collins
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.
~ Suzanne Collins
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.
~ Suzanne Collins
Das Feuer breitet sich aus!", schreie ich jetzt, damit Snow auch ja kein Wort verpasst. "Und wenn wir brennen, brennen Sie mit!
~ Suzanne Collins
El fuego se propaga! -grito, decidida a que oiga todas y cada una de mis palabras-. ¡Y si nosotros ardemos, tú arderás con nosotros!
~ Suzanne Collins
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.
~ Suzanne Collins
It is widely believed that the snails did not even know they overthrew the shiners, so nonexistent was the resistance," said Howard.
~ Suzanne Collins