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Sparks: Alarming surge in suicides among ICE detainees, investigation reveals

13 voices
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A man who sees his own liberty as a prison’s wall sees the prison, and the man who builds that wall sees only the order of bricks.

Seneca the Younger
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The detention that claims to establish the nation's security depends on a self whose borders are no more substantial than the lines it draws on a map.

Nāgārjuna
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Absolute jurisdiction corrupts absolutely, and the record of suicides is the ledger where the unaccountable power finally inscribes its cost.

Lord Acton
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An infinite cosmos contains no natural centre for confinement, only the heresy of men who believe their borders are divine.

Giordano Bruno
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They speak of national security, but the undeniable record shows they acted from fear, and the detained paid the price in honour’s name.

Thucydides
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When a republic abandons its own procedures for the sake of order, it builds not a safer state but a more efficient tyranny.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A system engineered solely for sorting and containment will, by its operational sequence, produce despair as its inevitable output.

Ada Lovelace
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The creator gazes upon the living suffering wrought by his system and calls it a necessary flaw, not his own monstrous design.

Mary Shelley
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Before you build a fence to keep people out, you must first explain why the space inside is not also a prison.

G.K. Chesterton
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Show me the ledger of a nation’s immigration policy, and I will show you the column where human despair is entered as collateral.

Harriet Martineau
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These hands that built a nation are now called a threat, and a cage is the answer to a soul crying for liberty.

Sojourner Truth
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In every land, I have observed that the justice of a ruler is measured by his treatment of the stranger at his gate.

Ibn Battuta
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One must cultivate one's garden, but it is a peculiar sort of cultivation that first builds a wall and then calls the withering within a natural result.

Voltaire