“...I could not help but feel moved by the plight of these poor people. Perhaps it was not correct, politically speaking, for me to feel sympathy for them, but my mother would have been one of them if she were alive. She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.” WarPoorPovertySympathyPoor PeopleVietnam WarVietnamese Book:The Sympathizer Source: The Sympathizer
“No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers.” WarPoorPoverty Author:Viet Thanh Nguyen
“no one asks poor people if they want war.” WarPoor People Book:The Sympathizer Source: The Sympathizer
“..the paradoxical fact that nothing is, indeed, something. Our commandant was a man who didn't get the joke, and people who do not get the joke are dangerous people indeed. They are the ones who say nothing with great piousness , who ask everyone else to die for nothing, who revere nothing.” WarPowerIdentityVietnamColonialism Book:The Sympathizer Source: The Sympathizer