#prisoners

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#anywhere #condition #crime #customs #deplorable

There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#bahrain #because #criminals #express #only

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

#american life #between #choose #destroys #eroticism

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#experienced #i #nothing #political #political prisoners

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#abuse #accountable #america #army #been

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#begins #everything #future #in the past #living

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#army #care #could #daily #doctor

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#most #prisoners #told

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#before #clothes #deal #eyed #good