Afra Binte Azad

“I bore no responsibility in any of this. With my reduced muscular strenght, I couldn't afford to bear any.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“Japan, on the other hand, works on the understanding that disabled people don’t exist within society, so there are no such proactive considerations made. Able-bodied Japanese people have likely never even imagined a hunchbacked monster struggling to read a physical book. Here was I, feeling my spine being crushed a little more with every book that I read, while all those e-book-hating able-bodied people who went on and on about how they loved the smell of physical books, or the feel of the turning pages beneath their fingers, persisted in their state of happy oblivion.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“The longer I lived, the more my body collapsed into an ever more aberrant shape. It wasn’t collapsing into death. Rather, it collapsed so as to live, collapsed as a testament to all the time I’d withstood. To live, my body breaks.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“And still another lesson is to keep vigilant for crimes against humanity – except those committed by your own government.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering