Arrested Quote by Michael Sata

I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time.…

— Irakli Okruashvili

I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it…

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy…

— Nelson Mandela

After Victor Paz's government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina, with Peru,…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I am not a full-time politician but a 'sanyasi' who took the path of politics to serve the masses.

— Yogi Adityanath

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under…

— Paulo Coelho

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

As a left-wing campaigner for 35 years, I've been arrested on picket lines, led anti-imperialist demonstrations and spoken at anti-deportation protests outside police stations.…

— Claire Fox

I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

After I got arrested the Filipino government unshackled me. I knew first-hand how they violated my rights and I could speak about that from…

— Maria Ressa

I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959…

— John Lewis

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

— Sushil Koirala