Quotes About Political Prisoners

#1. Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

Nong Duc Manh

#2. It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

Desmond Tutu

#3. Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that attend Mass and who afterwards peacefully take to the streets calling for the release of their husbands, sons and fathers who are political prisoners.

Marco Rubio

#4. As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

Angela Davis

#5. Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Erin Gruwell

#6. As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

Paul Krassner

#7. Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Joanna Lumley

#8. Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

William Hague

#9. What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#10. There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#11. As our country bled ... its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.

Corazon Aquino

#12. It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they would enjoy solitary confinement and internal exile too much.

Will Wiles

#13. There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Robert Bourassa

#14. Not all political prisoners are innocents.

David Remnick

#15. And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

Julian Assange

#16. Mr. President: We, women political prisoners of the Soviet Union, congratulate you on your reelection to the spot of President of the USA. We look with hope to your country which is on the road of FREEDOM and respect for HUMAN RIGHTS. We wish you success on this road.

Ronald Reagan

#17. Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, political prisoners and dozens of ethnic and other minorities.

Jack Straw

#18. It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Corazon Aquino

#19. There were some kids at Tufts who had been in the army, but they stayed to themselves. I'm pretty sure we must have seemed like babies to them.

Robin Black

#20. It's okay to be yourself. An original always worth more than a copy.
- Alif , Velvet di Durham -

Aishah Madadiy

#21. Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

Wendell Willkie

#22. Mistakes are made move on

NightBits

#23. They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

Leo Tolstoy

#24. I've always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.

Leah Busque

#25. Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

Dilma Rousseff

#26. We will stop the terrorist attacks before they occur because we will not be prisoners to political correctness. Rather, we will speak the truth. Border security is national security and we will not be admitting jihadists as refugees.

Ted Cruz

#27. People call me all the time and say, "Man, your players aren't signed yet." Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak.

Scott Boras

#28. Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

Venita VanCaspel