Conscience Be My Guide: An Anthology of Prison WritingsGeoffrey Bould Bloomsbury Academic, 1991 - 262 sidor This remarkable collection of prison literature inspires with the eloquent idealism of prisoners of conscience through the ages. The contributors include many of the world's finest writers: Wole Soyinka, Primo Levi, Irina Ratushinskaya, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Henry Throeau. There are moving accounts from victims of the Holocaust, Soviet labor camps and psychiatric prisons, nuclear protestors, civil rights and anti-apartheid activists, anti-colonial nationalists and targets of religious persecution throughout history. |
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... knew his opponents were seeking not the truth , but his death . Such women and men know when their consciences have won the day , and when they must , like Cranmer , extend a hand to the flame . Paradoxically , some prisoners suggest ...
... knew his opponents were seeking not the truth , but his death . Such women and men know when their consciences have won the day , and when they must , like Cranmer , extend a hand to the flame . Paradoxically , some prisoners suggest ...
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... knew too much , being direct witnesses of mass murders . There could not possibly be a return . The very fact that we had been moved out here and altogether isolated meant only one thing . Here we were surrounded by nothing but bodies ...
... knew too much , being direct witnesses of mass murders . There could not possibly be a return . The very fact that we had been moved out here and altogether isolated meant only one thing . Here we were surrounded by nothing but bodies ...
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... knew what the future would bring , much less the next hour . Even if we could not expect any sensational military events in the next few days , who knew better than we , with our experience of camps , how great chances sometimes opened ...
... knew what the future would bring , much less the next hour . Even if we could not expect any sensational military events in the next few days , who knew better than we , with our experience of camps , how great chances sometimes opened ...
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Amnesty International arrested asked Auschwitz became believe Belzec blindfolded body born bread called cell Christian Communist concentration camp conscientious objectors court dear death detained detention door Esperanto eyes face faith father fear feel feet Fellowship of Reconciliation felt Franz Jägerstätter freedom friends German Gestapo give Goli Otok ground guards handcuffs hands head hear heard heart hope human imprisoned Index on Censorship interrogation jail knew later letter live look Lord mind months morning never night No-Conscription Fellowship objectors one's pain peace person police political pray prayer priest prisoner of conscience punishment refused released remember sentenced soldiers solitary confinement someone soul South African spirit Stara Gradiska struggle suffering survive talk tell thing thought told took torture tried Venko Markovski voice walk wall words write wrote