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  • Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

  • 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 (2011). “The 39 Clues #2: One False Note”, p.89, Scholastic Inc.
  • Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.

    "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.
  • 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.

    Source: www.yesmagazine.org
  • I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

  • There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • 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 (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
  • I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

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

    Freedom   Heart   Army  
    Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 25, 2013
  • A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

  • 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.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • 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.

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