Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners. — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true. — Sekou Odinga Copy Share Image
I see that I can do good, I can help free political prisoners, I can raise questions that are silenced on the… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is… — Sekou Odinga Copy Share Image
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
I will return when I feel safe there, when negotiations start, when political prisoners are released. Those will be the signs for… — Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Copy Share Image
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“I soon learned that thought was not free in North Korea. A free thought could get you killed if it slipped out.… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“General Apollon Diaz was currently in power and leaned toward the position of the hawks, which was to meet force with force.… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Cuban agents are assigned to a Catholic Church where their instructions are to beat, jail and intimidate the Ladies In White that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“From the start the proportion of asocials in the camp was about one-third of the total population, and throughout the first years… — Sarah Helm Copy Share Image
“There has been much controversy about the numbers of those imprisoned and killed at various times in the Stalin years, but the… — Archie Brown Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“We were never more free than during the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, beginning with the right to talk.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
“The iron fettering on the gate read "Arbeit Macht Frei". "What do you think that means?" asked a man from behind them… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Provisions for martial law and the institutions to implement a military dictatorship inside the U.S. affect all facets of our society. No… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
“It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
The U.S. government does not recognize the existence of political prisoners in our country. The identity of political prisoners is concealed and,… — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how… — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order,… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
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![“All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you…” quote by Irina Ratushinskaya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/952/irina-ratushinskaya-71158_able_all-this-soviet-labor-camp-for-political_1072105.jpg)
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