A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.