Quotes From Joseph Maxfield's Speech
Christopher Mahoney
10 / 26 / 2016
8th Grade
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"And we've suffered long enough under their tyrannical rule! Fight back against your oppressors, who keep you laboring in the fields and factories day and night, barely scraping by! Fight back against the people who take your work for granted! Fight back against the people that don't appreciate you!"
The crowd roared in a deafening display of anger.
"Who are they to take your things as theirs, to call themselves righteous men yet thieve, kill, and lie? They are no superior to us than a flea is to a lion! We are the brave ones, risking our lives for the good of the country, while they stay in their homely palaces!"
Waving torches and firing their arms into the night, the mob grew …show more content…
He was also the man who had executed the cowardly king who had hid behind a line of soldiers armed with rifles. Then again, if Carter was being totally honest, he could not remember seeing Joseph among the front lines. Carter scolded himself for such a stupid thought, for he could see Joseph on the front lines in his mind's eye. Maxfield was a courageous and passionate man, one who only wanted the best for the people who had been so trodden upon. Yeah, that was right, Joseph was a good man, one who can be trusted, Carter …show more content…
All those families would have suffered outside of the country. After all, the communist state of _____, had problems, but none so terrible as the outside world. He had heard that other countries were wracked with death, famine, and disease. But here in the city Carter felt safe, under the watching eye of the government. Those foolish escapees did not know much if they thought it was a good idea to escape. They did not know enough, and as such required a strong, but steady hand to guide them back to where they would be better off. After all, most people were untrustworthy, too quick minded, and usually up to no good. The government knew best, and had the welfare of the people foremost in its
10 / 26 / 2016
8th Grade
PUT TITLE HERE
"And we've suffered long enough under their tyrannical rule! Fight back against your oppressors, who keep you laboring in the fields and factories day and night, barely scraping by! Fight back against the people who take your work for granted! Fight back against the people that don't appreciate you!"
The crowd roared in a deafening display of anger.
"Who are they to take your things as theirs, to call themselves righteous men yet thieve, kill, and lie? They are no superior to us than a flea is to a lion! We are the brave ones, risking our lives for the good of the country, while they stay in their homely palaces!"
Waving torches and firing their arms into the night, the mob grew …show more content…
He was also the man who had executed the cowardly king who had hid behind a line of soldiers armed with rifles. Then again, if Carter was being totally honest, he could not remember seeing Joseph among the front lines. Carter scolded himself for such a stupid thought, for he could see Joseph on the front lines in his mind's eye. Maxfield was a courageous and passionate man, one who only wanted the best for the people who had been so trodden upon. Yeah, that was right, Joseph was a good man, one who can be trusted, Carter …show more content…
All those families would have suffered outside of the country. After all, the communist state of _____, had problems, but none so terrible as the outside world. He had heard that other countries were wracked with death, famine, and disease. But here in the city Carter felt safe, under the watching eye of the government. Those foolish escapees did not know much if they thought it was a good idea to escape. They did not know enough, and as such required a strong, but steady hand to guide them back to where they would be better off. After all, most people were untrustworthy, too quick minded, and usually up to no good. The government knew best, and had the welfare of the people foremost in its