On This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS




January 18, 2011


We honor all of the political prisoners held throughout the world as a result of their peaceful acts of civil disobedience.

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In particular, we remember the 11 political prisoners that the Castro regime announced for release on July 2010, but remain imprisoned due to their refusal to be banished from their homeland.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We pray that the international community will stop appeasing the brutal regimes that impunely imprison them.

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.