Prison Quotes · Page 89

Every hardship is like being in prison. People feel imprisoned by ill-health, marital discord, financial insecurity, family disputes and other problems. To…

— Babar Ahmad

The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…

— Michelle Alexander

And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race.…

— Byron Katie

Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice.…

— Errol Morris

“As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he…

— Ingeborg Bachmann

There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there…

— Masha Gessen

As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than…

— Molly Ivins

I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading…

— Dorothy Day

Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which…

— Yoko Ono

How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of…

— Honorius Augustodunensis

Unfortunately, if the man who leaves the prison gates is just as likely or - as is sometimes grievously the case -…

— Ann Widdecombe

When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today,…

— Maia Szalavitz

I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I…

— Patrisse Cullors

We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact…

— Tamlyn Tomita

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good…

— Jay Leno

For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far…

— Michelle Alexander

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation,…

— Johnny Cash

What are people released from prison expected to do? How are they expected to survive? Can't get a job, locked out of…

— Michelle Alexander

We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in…

— Jimmy Carter

“Soon after this incident the court rose. As I was being taken from the courthouse to the prison van, I was conscious…

— Albert Camus

I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t…

— Candy Darling

“I met Ana doing free weights,” Roger said. “This hard-body señorita was putting me to shame on squats, and I asked her…

— Jennifer Lane

The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital…

— David Blankenhorn

People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Farragut's first visitor was his wife. He was raking leaves in yard Y when the PA said that 734-508-32 had a visitor.…

— John Cheever

I don't want to go to a foreign country and get lumped into that genre. I'm just looking at the bigger picture.…

— G-Dragon

Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years…

— Sukarno

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a…

— John McCain

“Work for the sole purpose of making a living is a miserable prison, which is why very few people will confess that…

— Hu Anyan

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing…

— Chris Patten

“Nick pressed a finger onto the table. “Would you bust him out of prison?” “No,” Zane answered immediately. Nick sat back, eyebrows…

— Abigail Roux

They sent me to the pen for five years for a crime that was never committed. I aint no bank robber but…

— Mac Dre

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had…

— Malcolm X

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock…

— Michael Moore

“Still, I force myself to stare into his apathetic eyes at the expense of being swallowed in their darkness. “What do you…

— Rina Kent

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce…

— George Bernard Shaw

The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the…

— Shirin Ebadi

Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being…

— Hillary Clinton