I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that ...I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, 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. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I didn't think I'd come out alive; in fact, I was seeing death. But I was prepared to die as long as I died for the truth, and I k...new that people would know that this was the case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When long ago I saw her ride Under Ben Bulben to the meet,... The beauty of her country-side With all youth's lonely wildness stirred, She seemed to have grown clean and sweet Like any rock-bred, sea-borne bird....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She that but little patience knew, From childhood on, had now so much... A grey gull lost its fear and flew Down to her cell and there alit, And there endured her fingers' touch And from her fingers ate its bit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have given the best of myself and the best work of my life to help obtain political freedom for women, knowing that upon this re...sts the hope not only of the freedom of men but of the onward civilization of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my ...civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no l...ess definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be... accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood.... Wealth ...and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of "happiness" ... has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »