For instance, the late Václav Havel, a former Czech president who spent years in prison for his human rights activities, wrote in 1985: "[The dissident] can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for."
Hi xikombiso, mufi Václav Havel, loyi a tshameke a va presidente ya le Czech loyi a heteke malembe yo tala ekhotsweni hikwalaho ko lwela timfanelo ta vanhu, u tsale leswi hi 1985: "[Vanhu lava terekaka] va nga nyiketela vutomi bya vona ntsena naswona va byi nyikela hikwalaho ka leswi ku nga riki na ndlela yin'wana yo seketela ntiyiso lowu va wu tshembaka."