Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts I-II. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney, Harper & Row, 1974.
Hill was tried for a murder he claimed he didn’t commit, but he refused to take the stand and explain his gunshot wound. He refused to provide the names of the people who were involved in his shooting. By today’s legal standard there was no proof of his guilt, but his refusal to testify or even provide the information to the Governor after his conviction. He was executed by Utah by firing squad in 1915.
Lincoln was referring to the "house divided against itself" speech. His remarks were addressed to friends who were trying to dissuade him from delivering the address.
He was assassinated by his bodyguard the following week. See {620972}. This appears to be the first time that a politician who was threatened with harm chose social media—in this case a Tweet--to inform supporters of his situation. The “blasphemy” for which he was accused was to oppose the death penalty for saying or writing anything that was heresy or blasphemy as interpreted be fundamentalist Muslims,
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of human rights abuses, the Gulag concentration camp system and political repression in the Soviet Union.
