Ana Zanini

“Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

“I think the power of books is that - that they teach us to care about others. It's a power that gives people courage and also supports them in turn. [. . .] Empathy - that's the power of books.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
― Jane Austen

“Os encapuzados podiam tudo em sua pregação
da barbárie. Os jornais, quando muito, dedicavam notas
aos casos, sem jamais incentivar a investigação.
Mais tarde, ao se perceberem impunes, eles ampliaram
o campo de ação. Mulheres e homens negros, nordestinos,
homossexuais, ateus, transexuais, pesquisadores, jornalistas…
Dobradores de origamis. Para os fundamentalistas, o outro era
sempre o inimigo. E o inimigo merecia a morte.”
― Eric Novello, Ninguém Nasce Herói