Country Quote by Susan Rosenberg

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

— Sekou Odinga

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

— Sekou Odinga

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

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

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call…

— Julian Assange

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

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

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

— Augusto Pinochet

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing.…

— Fred Korematsu

There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Tom McClintock

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love…

— Bobby Sands