40 Quotes by Susan Rosenberg

We're caught, but we're not defeated. Long live the armed struggle!

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.

Seeing the B-52s dropped from planes, watching the burning of civilians with Agent Orange, reading about the incarceration of Vietnamese militants in cages only big enough for tigers made me furious.

Being a lesbian is part of the very fabric of my being.

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

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.

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.

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 ran... I didn't trust the government. I was really afraid. I believe now that that was the fatal mistake of my life.