Accepting Quote by Julian Assange

The U.S. government does not recognize the existence of political prisoners in our country. The identity of political prisoners is concealed and, consequently, their…

— Susan Rosenberg

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

— Sekou Odinga

There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Sekou Odinga

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

— Augusto Pinochet

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

The West has political prisoners.

— Julian Assange

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

— Tom McClintock

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

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

— Leonard Peltier

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

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning