Fighting Quote by Leonard Peltier

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

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to…

— Catharine MacKinnon

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get…

— Dick Gregory

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

— Anonymous

I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing…

— Antonio Gramsci

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

— Sekou Odinga

I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.

— Jordi Cuixart

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

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be…

— Milton Friedman

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