“This is really the only speech that they have. It’s the only power that they have to protest against the way that they’re being treated.”
, “The passive nonviolence of King and Gandhi are proof that the resolute acceptance of pain may communicate dedication and righteousness more eloquently than mere words ever could. A boycott, like a hunger strike, conveys an emotional message that is absent in a letter to the editor, a conversation with the mayor, or even a protest march.”
The agency goes on to say that Sayad is risking his life by “making it impossible for the United States to fulfill its responsibility to provide adequate treatment and care to him,” and that his actions may “have a significant destabilizing impact on the institution.” To Norton, the binary choice between two extremes—ceding to a detainee’s demands or letting them die—is the wrong way to frame the issue, she told The Daily Beast: “Really it should be about, how did we get to this point where this person is so desperate? That he feels like this is the only option he has? And how has the system failed him up to this point?”
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