Suzanne Collins Quotes
If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.
Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. Scholastic Press, 2009, p. 148.
In the Civil War a drafted conscript could pay money instead of serving in the army. Many rich and middle class men did so leaving a higher proportion of the poor to be drafted. The song is sometimes misattributed to William Cullen Bryant.
During the Irish potato famine, other crops continued to be exported from Ireland. Some argued that without the exports the Irish economy would totally collapse exacerbating the pain to Ireland, but many others disagreed and argued that all available food should be used for the people of the country. For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
The nobles of the city were in rebellion and fought the English Prince of Wales. When the city was taken, the poor people as well as the nobles were executed for their part in the “rebellion.” However, the poor had no say in the matter, and it was not they who ordered the city gates shut and decided to undergo a siege, which in this case was not successful. Limoges was a heavily walled city, well provisioned for a siege, but the English had miners who undermined part of the city walls and crashed them into the moat and allowed the English to walk in easily.
Franklin, then a Harvard student was courting Eleanor who had been working in a settlement house on the Lower East Side of New York. He visited her there and on this occasion a young girl had become very ill and Eleanor wanted to see her home and took Franklin along. This was his first experience with the living conditions of poor people.
Even a cursory reading of the Koran and early Muslim history would show that there were vast inequalities in the economic order long before the ‘imperialists’ were involved in the Middle East. Throughout the Islamic world there has always been the oppressors and the oppressed and inequality has usually been much worse than in the ‘imperialist’ countries.
Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She is known as the author of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games.
