Nelson Mandela

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

I think we have to hedge this a bit. Sometimes we have to take away someone's freedom, or at least reduce it, in order to protect the innocent. After all, not everyone in South Africa's prisons was there unjustly.