State Brutality at Jantar Mantar: Quotes and Inspired Quintet
State Brutality at Jantar Mantar: Quotes and Inspired Quintet
QUOTES ON STATE BRUTALITY
Mahatma Gandhi: "An unjust law / Act is itself a species of violence."
Hannah Arendt: "Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance".
George Orwell: "The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power".
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence"
Max Stirner: "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime "
Kristian Williams: "It seems paradoxical that an organization responsible for enforcing the law would frequently rely on illegal practices."
Tanzil Chowdhury: “The violence of the imperial project is not a mere historical curiosity, nor did it only take place in a 'distant land'; it shaped and continues to shape the technologies of British state violence today.”
A Inspired Quintet from State Brutality at Jantar Mantar Youth Protest
A woman stood, with peace in her heart,
Brutal cops tore her world apart.
A blow to her head,
Inner organs bled,
Then dragged and tossed, a cruel, grim art.
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