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“How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their very
for how can we know who we are if we do not know who we were?
“Your parents must have loved you very much to care so deeply about your future. They hoped to give you the chance of growing up in a Lithuania that was free, that belonged to our own people.”
If our country ceases to exist, then who will you be? An orphan to a nameless people, not Lithuanian, not Russian, not anything.”
Read it and you will see that what the Russians have stolen from us is so much greater than simply our land and our lives.”
Control the books and you will control the people.”
the tsar will have to admit that he cannot control us, cannot crush us, and certainly cannot force us into his Russian mold.
The moment we start to choose what’s easy or safe, instead of choosing what’s right, we start to become like the snake.”
If we surrendered our books to them, we’d surrender our minds, leaving us hollowed-out
out puppets, ready to be controlled.
But now I had grown into my name. I was the storm.
Planning. Praying. They knew what was coming.
“Our work is to do everything we can to free Lithuania! Words are never enough of a weapon. We must help these people fight!”
At some point, we’ve got to stand on our feet and face the Cossacks and force the Russian Empire out of our land!
