This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.

I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.

I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.

The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.

We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad condition. Most of us are getting older, you know. I believe all of them is 60 years or older. They've been in prison for long periods of time. Many of them should have never been in prison at all. They were framed and illegally convicted.