Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes

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

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

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

I am writing to you to tell you of my decision to return to your Government the Carl von Ossietzsky medal for peace. I do so reluctantly and after two years of private approaches on behalf of Heinz Brandt, whose continued imprisonment is a barrier to coexistence, relaxation of tension and understanding between East and West... I regret not to have heard from you on this subject. I hope that you will yet find it possible to release Brandt through an amnesty which would be a boon to the cause of peace and to your country.

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

It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

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

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

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.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner …. I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison.

I can raise more hell in jail than out.

Our action will have to be very violent in order to crush a strong and well-organized enemy [the Republicans] as soon as possible. Hence, all leaders of political parties, societies or unions not pledged to our movement will be imprisoned. Such people will be administered exemplary punishment [usually shot] so that movements of rebellion or strikes will be strangles.

I was imprisoned for talking.

Everyone is trapped in Guantanamo Bay. The prisoners are trapped of course, but so are the Guards and the staff. Even President Obama who wants to close it down is trapped.

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 aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.

When the Emergency was proclaimed at midnight on 25 June 1975, they came to arrest me. I managed to escape by going to a friend's house nearby.

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.

At the very least, Secretary Clinton should publicly call for the unequivocal release of Saeed Abedini.

I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person.

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

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.