Hunger Strike 2008
In February through March 2008, he conducted a hunger strike in San Jose, California, protesting efforts by city councilwoman Madison Nguyen to name a district of the city "Vietnam Business District" instead of "Little Saigon".
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Famous quotes containing the words hunger and/or strike:
“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger and dirt
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the “Song of the Shirt.””
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)
“I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)