'This country does not belong only to the 5 or 10 children of oligarchs, but to the millions of other children as well. Every child in Azerbaijan has the right to live in prosperity, justice, and dignity.'
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'I do repent, of course. Every day for a year and a half.'
'And please stop calling me a soldier. I do not want to associate with bio-trash.'
'It's time to end patriarchy. The time for women has come.'
‘Stop torturing my grandmother and my children.’
‘I demand the maximum sentence. Because I despise you. I will not live on this land or in this country with you.’
'I am not a foreign agent. I am a citizen of Russia.'
‘Your power is based on lies and violence’
'We can see that the government, while proclaiming that it’s fighting terrorism, is in reality only trying to retain its monopoly on terror.'
'We were sentenced to 13 to 19 years for alleged terrorist activity. In this country, people get less time for actual murder.'
‘They fail to see that Ukrainians don’t need any ‘big brother’. They don’t need, much less, any so-called triune Russian people.’
‘It’s as though we’re in a “Black Mirror” episode right now. Honestly, it all suggests my case is politically motivated.’
'One cannot seek justice only for oneself and silence one’s conscience when justice is being violated in relation to others.'
'We are accused of seizing power in the Russian Federation. But, excuse me, when did we personally come to live in the Russian Federation? We lived in Ukraine, and none of us moved to the Russian Federation. The Russian Federation came to us itself. It annexed our homeland Crimea as part of its country. Moreover, it did so illegally. And this is not my personal opinion, but the opinion of the entire international community.'
'I saw bags over people’s heads. Wires on their limbs. Broken ribs. Damaged kidneys. People beaten to death. Starvation for over a year. No medical help. People rotting alive—their arms, their legs. Lice and bedbugs. Two showers a year that we were allowed to, and after each one, we came out filthier than before. And beaten as well.'
'What will we tell our children and grandchildren about these troubled times?'
‘I told the truth. If I had known this truth earlier, I would have said it earlier.’
‘We are the independent journalists of this country, we have no obligation to please the president.’
'The generation that has already passed has bequeathed to us to protect the world with all our might, as the most valuable thing on Earth for all its inhabitants. And we have neglected his precepts and devalued our memory of these people and the victims of that war.'
'Remind yourself and others: two plus two equals four. Black is black. White is white. I am a human, I am strong and bold. We are strong and bold.'
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