Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how free you are; If we can be violated, so can you.
I've done everything I know in my heart on every level to take responsibility for what I think I have to. I'm not going to take responsibility for something the government thinks that I should because they think I should.
The U.S. government does not recognize the existence of political prisoners in our country. The identity of political prisoners is concealed and, consequently, their right to justice is denied.
We are innocent. We are not criminals or terrorists. We are revolutionary guerillas and have been captured in the course of building a resistance to this government.
I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I began a life of service.
We are not terrorists. We're not criminals, we're not motivated by money, we're not motivated by greed. Nor are we simply nice kids gone wrong. We're deeply committed to a different kind of society and a different world. I think that is something very hard to understand for a lot of people.
I had a second chance. I know how incredible that is.
At the time it seemed like there was a loosening of culture, there was a counterculture, there was a radicalization. I think we totally misread what was really going on in the world, that somehow a small group of people could mobilize a larger group of people.
I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it.
I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women.
The criminal activities I was involved in, I think that they were wrong and that they were dangerous.
It was an extreme time, in a certain sense... I was totally and profoundly influenced by the revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s.
I have a political view that is certainly progressive and radical in a certain sense.
I took responsibility for the illegal actions, the potential for violence in my past actions, which I regret.
It is not a crime to build revolutionary resistance against the single greatest enemy of the people of the world: U.S. imperialism.