The We and the They Quotes

“The soulless ones are not our greatest enemies. They were as deceived as We were. Our ultimate enemy is greed. For greed hardens hearts and minds and renders other people as less than human, as merely flesh.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“We used to think that hunger was our greatest enemy...[a]nd yet, though hunger can still be dreadful, it helped forge our family. We would have never become a *We* if We did not unite over a shared need....Our capacity to feel and endure hunger and lacking and pain reveals We are human.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“[I]t is okay to be sad and feel pain. Better to feel pain than to inflict it on others.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“Darkness fueled by the fear of hunger and reverence of greed could choke the world. Or maybe more of us, the We, could exist. May We know the power of the choice to become many in one, fleshed and all.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History