Prisoner Of Conscience

Author : Frank Wolf
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310328995

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Respected congressman and human and religious rights crusader Frank Wolf shows us what one person can do to fight injustice and relieve suffering. In Prisoner of Conscience, Wolf shares intimate stories of his adventures from the halls of political power to other dangerous places around the world, what he has learned along the way, and what you can do about it now.

Author : Susan R. Matthews
Publisher : Eos
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380789140

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Prisoner of Conscience by Susan R. Matthews Pdf

A man of honor, Inquisitor Andrej Kosciusko skillfully extracts confessions from the enemies of the ruling Judiciary. But at Domitt Prison, where Kosciusko has recently been assigned, there are hints of a conspiracy of terror that goes far beyond anything that is officially sanctioned. As Andre pursues dark secrets he is led into the perilous gray realm that lies between conscience and duty--which may threaten his career, if not his very life.

Author : Ma Thida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 6162151239

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Prisoner of Conscience by Ma Thida Pdf

From childhood, Ma Thida dreamed of helping others--caring for the sick, sharing information despite censorship, and standing up for people's rights. To stand against the oppression that had been stifling Myanmar's progress for decades, she joined Aung San Suu Kyi and the many other activists in the National League for Democracy, campaigning steadfastly despite intimidation, harassment, and worse. Because of her efforts, the regime sent her to Insein Prison, where she faced serious illness and bleak conditions. However, it was in fighting the obstacles of her imprisonment and following the Buddha's teachings that Ma Thida found what it means to be truly free. In this memoir, readers join Ma Thida on her path through captivity and witness one remarkable woman's courageous quest for truth and dignity.

Author : Amelia E. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Shetland (Scotland)
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDH13

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Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia E. Barr Pdf

Author : Kenneth Kennon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465320865

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Prisoner of Conscience by Kenneth Kennon Pdf

This memoir relates one Americans compelling journey of conscience that culminated in a federal prison sentence for a peaceful act of resistance. Kennon was one of twenty-five Americans in a single federal trial to receive the maximum sentence for a petty offense. Six months for a Class B misdemeanor and a $3,000 fine. The introduction, a fast-forward through this offenders life story, clearly reveals the motivations and consequences of this clergymans purposeful act of resistance, in the spirit of Gandhi and King and in the face of a governmental threat of prison time. Chapters 1 through 7 are taken from his contemporaneous prison journal and letters to family members. They tell how he was dealing with what happened each month during the time he was incarcerated. Over the years I have studied corrections as a sociologist and visited inmates as a clergyman. It is a very different experience being a prisoner, writes Kennon. He paints prison life with a mixture of pain and humor that captures the ironic picture of a correctional institution bent on retribution without rehabilitation. Mingled among these pages are his prison poems, reflections, and articles, as well as selected excerpts from wise writings he encountered during his time there. An epilogue gives a glimpse into what has happened since his release and a brief update on the struggle for peace that caused him, and scores of other Americans, to become prisoners of conscience.

Author : Geoffrey Bould
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1842776754

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Conscience Be My Guide by Geoffrey Bould Pdf

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 Thoreau. There are moving accounts from victims of the Holocaust, Soviet labour camps and psychiatric prisons, nuclear protestors, civil rights and anti-apartheid activists, anti-colonial nationalists and targets of religious persecution throughout history.

Author : Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0896086992

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Death Blossoms by Mumia Abu-Jamal Pdf

The author, a prisoner on death-row for killing a police officer, presents a series of essays and reflections on his life and his spirituality.

Author : Charles Yeats
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120931931

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Prisoner of Conscience by Charles Yeats Pdf

Charles Yeats had a privileged upbringing as a White South African in the late 1970's and early 80's, and seemed destined to remain one of the social elite. However he felt increasingly uncomfortable with the Apartheid regime and moved to London to escape military service at home. Later he returned to face inevitable arrest as a conscientious objector. He was court martialled and sentenced to the now well-known Detention Barracks, where he refused to wear military uniform, and was put in solitary confinement five times. All this led to an unprecedented second court martial and a further year's incarceration in the notorious Pretoria Central Prison. During this period he was adopted by Amnesty International as one of their Prisoners of Conscience. After his release (in February 83) he studied Theology at Oxford and today teaches at Durham University. He also advises corporations on their social, environmental and moral responsibilities. 'Prisoner of Conscience' is a fascinating slice of history from one man who lived it in the front line. But, much more than that, given his experiences in southern Africa as well as his contemporary concerns, the author also makes trenchant comments about Western imperialism, and the way the Church (the Anglican one in particular) is losing the opportunity to show us that love and friendship offer the only way forward to a lasting peace.

Author : Amnesty International
Publisher : Amnesty International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : 0862100062

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Prisoners of Conscience in the USSR by Amnesty International Pdf

An Amnesty International report.

Author : Susan R. Matthews
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613174518

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Prisoner of Conscience by Susan R. Matthews Pdf

The honorable Inquisitor Andrej Kosciusko, who adroitly extricates confessions from enemies of the ruling Judiciary, must uncover the deception and betrayals that lie beneath the surface of Domitt Prison before he loses his career and his life

Author : Amelia E. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:838169489

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Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia E. Barr Pdf

Author : Gerard A. Hauser
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781611171884

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Prisoners of Conscience by Gerard A. Hauser Pdf

Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association’s Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the discourse of prisoners of conscience, as a form of rhetoric in which the vernacular is the main source of available appeals and the foundation for political agency. Hauser explores how modes of resistance employed by these prisoners constitute what he deems a “thick moral vernacular” rhetoric of human rights. Hauser’s work considers in part how these prisoners convert universal commitments to human dignity, agency, and voice into the moral vernacular of the society and culture to which their rhetoric is addressed. Hauser grounds his study through a series of case studies, each centered on a different rhetorical mechanism brought to bear in the act of resistance. Through a transnational rhetorical analysis of resistance within political prisons, Hauser brings to bear his skills as a rhetorical theorist and critic to illuminate the rhetorical power of resistance as tied to core questions in contemporary humanistic scholarship and public concern.

Author : Ann Marie Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400824229

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Diplomacy of Conscience by Ann Marie Clark Pdf

A small group founded Amnesty International in 1961 to translate human rights principles into action. Diplomacy of Conscience provides a rich account of how the organization pioneered a combination of popular pressure and expert knowledge to advance global human rights. To an extent unmatched by predecessors and copied by successors, Amnesty International has employed worldwide publicity campaigns based on fact-finding and moral pressure to urge governments to improve human rights practices. Less well known is Amnesty International's significant impact on international law. It has helped forge the international community's repertoire of official responses to the most severe human rights violations, supplementing moral concern with expertise and conceptual vision. Diplomacy of Conscience traces Amnesty International's efforts to strengthen both popular human rights awareness and international law against torture, disappearances, and political killings. Drawing on primary interviews and archival research, Ann Marie Clark posits that Amnesty International's strenuously cultivated objectivity gave the group political independence and allowed it to be critical of all governments violating human rights. Its capacity to investigate abuses and interpret them according to international standards helped it foster consistency and coherence in new human rights law. Generalizing from this study, Clark builds a theory of the autonomous role of nongovernmental actors in the emergence of international norms pitting moral imperatives against state sovereignty. Her work is of substantial historical and theoretical relevance to those interested in how norms take shape in international society, as well as anyone studying the increasing visibility of nongovernmental organizations on the international scene.

Author : Don Beisswenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Political prisoners
ISBN : 083589939X

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Locked Up by Don Beisswenger Pdf

Author : Bruce A. Van Orden
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89067577296

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Prisoner for Conscience' Sake by Bruce A. Van Orden Pdf