QUOTES: FEBRUARY: AARON BUSHNELL

 

“Many of us like to ask ourselves: “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?”

“The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.

 

 

—Aaron Bushnell committed suicide on February 25, 2024 in protest over America's complicity in the genocide in Gaza. He poured gasoline over his body and set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C. His last words were: "Free Palestine!" 

He was twenty-five years old.