Quotes About Injustice

My refusal to play the Games on the Capitol's terms is to be my last act of rebellion. So

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do.

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins

The Head Peacekeeper comes back with more instructions for the population. It seems that this evening there was an unfortunate incident where a crowd beat to death a young man who resembled Peeta. Henceforth, all rebel sightings are to be reported immediately to authorities, who will deal with the identification and arrest of the suspect. They show a photo of the victim. Apart from some obviously bleached curls, he looks about as much like Peeta as I do. "People

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

As I slowly, I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, tomake them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do orforce us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Ruewas more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

I'm left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick's fate would have one day been mine. Why not? Snow could have gotten a really good price for the girl on fire.

We're sideswiped by a gurney bearing an unconscious, emaciated young woman with a shaved head. Her flesh shows bruises and oozing scabs. Johanna Mason. Who actually knew rebel secrets. At least the one about me. And this is how she has paid for it.

I want to tell people that if you think for one second the Capitol will treat us fairly if there's a cease-fire, you're deluding yourself. Because you know who they are and what they do." My hands go out automatically, as if to indicate the whole horror around me. "This is what they do! And we must fight back!

The snow's red and littered with undersized body parts. Many of the children die immediately, but others lie in agony on the ground. Some stagger around mutely, staring at the remaining silver parachutes in their hands, as if they still might have something precious inside. I can tell the Peacekeepers didn't know this was coming by the way they are yanking away the barricades, making a path to the children.

Does anyone have any other comments?" "Wash her face," says Dalton. Everyone turns to him. "She's still a girl and you made her look thirty-five. Feels wrong. Like something the Capitol would do.

Well, you already knew that life isn't fair, right?" he said. "I guess death isn't either.

a social deformity perhaps more hideous than the evil rich man: the evil poor.

It isn't fair, the way some of us have gotten so screwed by life.

Girls need to protect each other, especially when adults do nothing but watch.

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Czy?byÅ›my wykoÅ"czyli Hotentotów i buszmenów? SÄ…dzÄ™, ?e tak; wkrótce bÄ™dÄ… przedstawiani jako osobliwoÅ›ci; jeden z nich, wypchany, znajduje siÄ™ jako eksponat w Anglii, inny w Pary?u, jeÅ›li siÄ™ nie mylÄ™... Krótko mówiÄ…c: zniknÄ… szybko z powierzchni ziemi.

W swoim przemówieniu kapitan Gordon Pim podkreÅ›liÅ', ?e zabijanie tubylców miaÅ'o charakter filantropijny - w masakrze, powiedziaÅ', jest coÅ› z miÅ'osierdzia, mercy in a massacre.

CzÅ'owieczeÅ"stwo TasmaÅ"czyków nie byÅ'o dla nich ?adnÄ… ochronÄ…. Zostali zmieceni z powierzchni ziemi w ciÄ…gu trwajÄ…cej pi??dziesiÄ…t lat, wyniszczajÄ…cej wojny prowadzonej przez naje?d?ców z Europy. Jakie wiÄ™c mamy prawo skar?y? siÄ™, gdy ten sam rodzaj wojny prowadzÄ… Marsjanie przeciwko nam?

True. The school admin decided that a girls clothes were more important than her education.

I'm very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it's very hard for me.

As a woman of color, I've come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing to do with my gender, race or class. (Unless something good happens to me, in which case they tell me my gender, race and/or class is exactly why that thing happened).

My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.