People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

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

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

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

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

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.