Hunger Strike Quotes

• They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

  Bobby Sands

  Freedom, Heart, Army

  Bobby Sands (1998). "Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison", Mercier PressLtd

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• I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

  Bobby Sands

  Alma, Mundo, Mayo

  Bobby Sands (1982). "Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands", Irish Amer Book Company

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• El ayuno no es una huelga de hambre. El ayuno se somete a los mandatos de Dios. Una huelga de hambre hace que Dios se someta a nuestras exigencias.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Demand, Fasting

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• When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship...I could witness that as a result of Ahmadinejad, they lived in a dream. They believed that paradise is around the corner and that all their demands shall be met.

  Akbar Ganji

  Dream, Paradise, Hardship

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Hablé a mis compañeros de celda sobre la opresión de los blancos y el apartheid. Ayudé a organizar huelgas de hambre y cosas por el estilo en mi prisión.

  Nelson Mandela

  Prison, Oppression, Strikes

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• Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south." "Gracious," Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.

  Kristin Cashore

  Mother, Lying, Spring

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.92, Penguin

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• Dick Gregory fue un gran cómico que fue a la cárcel, hizo huelgas de hambre y protestas. Nunca perjudicó su carrera ser franco.

  Joe Rogan

  Hurt, Careers, Comedian

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• También hubo una huelga de hambre frente al Club Nacional de Prensa, que parecía un lugar extraño para hacer una huelga de hambre (un cóctel de ayuno, tal vez). Aunque los bangladeshíes eran lo bastante listos como para saber que, si vas a molestar a los periodistas, no vayas a donde trabajan: Allí nunca los encontrarás.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Clubs, Cocktails

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). "Todos los problemas del mundo: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty", p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, caused by a company they now own, Union Carbide. In the past, Diane's hunger strikes had been lonely affairs, but this time friends and co-conspirators from around the country took turns joining her on her flatbed truck under the hot Texas sun, greeting Dow workers as they entered the plant.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Lonely, Responsibility

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike." The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.

  Gordon Korman

  Sweet, Years, Venice

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The 39 Clues #2: One False Note”, p.89, Scholastic Inc.

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• I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Cat, Perfect

  David Sedaris (2000). "Yo hablar bonito un día"

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• Leigh [Bowery] se inventaba historias sobre gente que se suicidaba o hacía huelgas de hambre porque les negaban la entrada en la puerta.

  Boy George

  Suicide, Doors, People

  "Tabú". Entrevista con Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. 19 de diciembre de 2008.

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• There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

  Bill Engvall

  Suicide, California, Bed

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 25, 2013

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