“I’m an adult,” the boy says. “I got rights.”
“Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.”
― We the Animals
“Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.”
― We the Animals
“It is axiomatic that one death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic.”
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
“There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.”
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
“We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”
― We the Animals
― We the Animals
“They weren't scared, or dispossessed, or fragile. They were possible.”
― We the Animals
― We the Animals
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