Arrest Quote by Jon Johansen

When the Emergency was proclaimed at midnight on 25 June 1975, they came to arrest me. I managed to escape by going to a…

— Arun Jaitley

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I…

— Johnny Thunders

On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We…

— Luis Gutierrez

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

— Rosa Parks

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

— Wendell Berry

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to…

— Klaus Fuchs

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

— Edward Conlon

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said…

— Joshua Slocum

The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation.…

— Julian Assange

I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

— Steven Wright

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest…

— Philip Gibbs

On November 13, 2005, as I was flying into Moscow from a weekend away, I was stopped at Sheremetyevo airport, detained for 15 hours,…

— Bill Browder