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Sparks / 15 Apr 2026

Sparks: Prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti assaulted three times in a month, family says

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To assert violence did not occur is to depend on the very concept of violence whose inherent emptiness the assertion denies.

Nāgārjuna

Another man’s violence is outside my control; my judgment of its injustice is the only thing I own.

Epictetus

All I know is what I read, and I read that nobody ever did nothing to nobody, which is the official story everywhere.

Will Rogers

A government that denies the self-evident truth of a man's suffering forfeits the consent of the governed.

Thomas Jefferson

A nation's moral character is revealed not in its grand pronouncements but in its treatment of the powerless man in the dark.

Hannah More

An experiment in authority that refuses to admit contrary evidence is not philosophy but superstition.

Benjamin Franklin

The oldest cruelty is the iron belief that a man’s suffering is not real if the powerful declare it a fiction.

Lu Xun

The man who cries out against his chains is answered not with reason but with a louder denial that the chains exist.

Frederick Douglass