Torture is an act that defies the boundaries of language.
We reserve the thought to express an anguish deeper than pain. Ultimately, however, working with torture survivors has taught me that the fact of pain beyond pain leaves only the hope of uncovering a calm, healthy, and entire soul within a distressed and devastated body - that if there is pain beyond pain, there is also tranquility beyond reason, faith beyond injustice, and love beyond fear. Today we know that survivors of torture can be helped to regain their health and strength, and in helping them we take the weapon from their torturers. They sought the destruction of other human beings. We have proved that they have not succeeded.