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“The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.”

Conscience Abuse Photograph Reports Shock Treatment Prisoner Humiliating Degrading Physical Abuse

Author:Ed Markey

“Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.”

Men Adventure Fool Despair Conscience Longing Desert Torture Emptiness Wilderness Prisoner Torn Chamber Consumed Inventor Homesickness Unsafe Torn Apart

Book:Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition

Source: Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition

“As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.”

“One prisoner of conscience is one too many.”

Conscience Prisoner

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.”

World Suffering Choices Moral Principles Land Conscience Notion Soldier Prisoner Land Of The Free Moral Choices Nuremberg

Author:John Pilger

“With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.”

Feels Focus Conscience Weight West All Time Prisoner Overlooked

Author:Talib Kweli

“Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.”

Way Heart Process My Heart Conscience International Opening Touched Prisoner Adopted Opening Up Amnesty Amnesty International

Author:Maajid Nawaz

“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.”

Humans Faces Lying Horror Racism Conscience Victim Injustice Commit Prisoner Oppressors Facing The Truth Sears Human Equality

Author:Alveda King

“I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.”

Thinking World Conscience Prisoner

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.”

“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.”

“As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.”

Looks Remember Please Conscience Prisoner Look At Me Listen To Me

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi