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I am here, therefore, to invite and submit cheerfully to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime, and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen.

I have been in jail four times. I am not afraid of being in jail again.

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.

Political prisoners are not forgotten heroes; they are our conscience in chains.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Prison bars cannot contain the truth; they only serve to amplify it.

We still have hundreds of people that I would categorize as political prisoners. Maybe even thousands, depending on how you categorize them.

The most certain way to ensure that you are doing nothing to help a political prisoner is to stay silent about their plight.

Bless you, prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity, as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian.

The history of American politics is littered with instances of government officials abusing their power to imprison individuals for their beliefs or associations.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The struggle for justice doesn't end with the imprisonment of those who fight for it; it only intensifies.