“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Most people, when they want to see their mothers, they can pick up the phone and dial it. I've got to go… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
I've been accused for a shootin. Which I know never do. Who dem in prison that willing dey. So I've got to… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief… — Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Copy Share Image
After I get dolled up and lay down some records and my voice is out, I want to get away and get… — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
I think of all the things that I've gotten to do, all the wonderful people that I've played with, being in the… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level.… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
The prison system today is so messed up. Some people say, "Some criminals are made in prison," and it's actually true. The… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves.… — Winnie Holzman Copy Share Image
“We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“Any place you don’t want to stay becomes your prison! That’s why there are many prisoners all around the world who look… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is… — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
“I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.” — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
I had an inkling that I was going to prison before I actually did, because I'd witnessed my father and my elders… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world.… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going… — Adam Hills Copy Share Image
“When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
“Pardon me, you ... love life? You who exclaim and sing over and over and dance it too: "i love you, life!… — Aleksander Solženitsyn Copy Share Image
How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
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