Arundhati Roy, Arundhati Roy: They are trying to keep me destabilised. Anybody who says anything is in danger (2011)
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Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.
— Arundhati Roy on Nonviolence
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation." in the context of "Arundhati Roy, Arundhati Roy: They are trying to keep me destabilised. Anybody who says anything is in danger (2011)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Nonviolence" (R)
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