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.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
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.
I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.
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.
Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
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.
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.
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.
