#prisoner

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release. ↗

— Jackson Browne

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Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#nobody #political #prisoner #problem #wants

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#haven #held #i #i am #president

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality. ↗

— Lena Dunham

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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. ↗

— John Foxe

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You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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