# Quote — Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible

> Let us shout louder than her memory,
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> louder than the unheard cries
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> of 200,000 disappeared,
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> buried alive in pits,
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> thrown alive from planes,
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> butchered and bayoneted
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> defenseless and blindfolded
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> in the name of democracy.
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> It is real, the nightmare,
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> and without end.
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> How can we sleep?
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> How can we sleep?

- Author: [Ana Castillo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo.md)
- Book: [I Ask the Impossible](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana_Castillo#I_Ask_The_Impossible_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/let-us-shout

## More from this book

> The road in either direction
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> is neither longer nor shorter,
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> nor more narrow nor wider
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> than the fear that closes your heart.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/the-road-in-either.md)

> paintings
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> and books conceal more than they ever tell.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/paintings-and-books.md)

> As if we should not be scandalized
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> by surprise bombing over any city at night,
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> bombs scandalizing the sanctity of night.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ana-castillo/i-ask-the-impossible/as-if-we-should.md)