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Hunger Strike Quotes

This collection holds 10 hunger strike quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Bobby Sands, Edwin Louis Cole and Nelson Mandela.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Bobby Sands / Political Leader

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

Edwin Louis Cole

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

Nelson Mandela / Former President Of South Africa

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Joe Rogan / Stand-Up Comedian

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

Boy George / Singer-Songwriter

Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.

Bill Engvall / Comedian

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.

Gordon Korman / Author

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.

David Sedaris / Humorist

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.

P. J. O'rourke / Satirist

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.

Akbar Ganji / Journalist

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.

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