Pragi

“The police and soldiers stencilled some numbers. By one of the houses, somewhere in the street, they wrote, '70 curies', '60 curies'. We'd been living on our potatoes, our spuds, forever, and here they were saying we couldn't eat them! And they wouldn't let us have onions or carrots, either.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“All the bad stuff gets forgotten, and that is what stays. What lingers is the fact they couldn't cope without you. You were essential. Our system, our military, operates pretty much superbly in an emergency. Out there, you were finally free and needed. Freedom! At moments like that, the Russian people show how great they are. How special! We'll never be like the Dutch or Germans. And we'll never have good roads or groomed lawns. But we'll always have heroes!”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition

“So, my love, have you understood my sadness? Pass it on to the people, though I might not be around by then. They'll find me in the earth. Under the roots.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster