Arun Jaitley Quotes

No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

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

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

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

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

I was imprisoned for talking.

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

I have the responsibility to tell everybody that I am not the only political prisoner in Hong Kong and that there will be more coming.

A pattern has developed under the Maduro regime. When pressure builds, the first recourse is to repress and persecute. I know this because buckshot pellets fired by members of the armed forces - at peaceful protesters in 2017 - remain lodged in my own body. A minor price to pay compared to the sacrifices made by some of my compatriots.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

I did yoga in the cell, meditated, and slept well; somebody brings you some food and drink. I've been arrested four times now.

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

It's important to remember that a dictator will not freely relinquish power after having hijacked the constitution and ruled with threats and promises. Sometimes it is necessary to put enough pressure on him that he leaves.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

The N.B.A. provides a big platform to shed light on the human rights violations in Turkey and gives a voice to the thousands of people persecuted.

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.