Era Quote by Kirsten Powers

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were…

— Dilma Rousseff

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the…

— Anthony Lewis

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

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

There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.

— Ash Sarkar

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

— Adnan Pachachi

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races —…

— Robert Thurman

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own…

— James Ussher

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected…

— Naomi Klein

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that…

— Eugene Ionesco

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces…

— Michelle Alexander