Commitment Quote by Dilma Rousseff

When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how free you…

— Susan Rosenberg

The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and…

— Sekou Odinga

“politicians were prisoners of misguided”

— Robert Dreyfuss

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

— Roland Joffe

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other…

— David Dellinger

“Because there is no opportunity to act. It is always wise to talk a great deal, discussing what has been done and what may…

— Gene Wolfe

“Prisoners have freedom of thought, but not freedom of action.”

— Open University

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

— Sekou Odinga

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.

— Sekou Odinga

The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of…

— Clint Smith