“the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
“Now that you’re here, now that they know you exist, you’ll never be free again. Ever. We’re prisoners to our books, our… — Angela Parkhurst Copy Share Image
When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“In the early summer, Capt. Wirz issued to the prisoners picks and shovels, with which to dig wells for increased water supply.… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“The prisoners stand on the other side, three of whom require their own cages. He hands out the Eucharist through a sort… — Kerry Weber Copy Share Image
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“I once saw a convict who had been twenty years in prison and was being released take leave of his fellow prisoners.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In an isolated region from Iran there is this wall tower, windowless, doorless, not very tall. In its only room with arched… — jorge luis borges Copy Share Image
“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and… — Stanley Loomis Copy Share Image
Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“One of the prisoners, Grigoryev, went mad as soon as he was untied, and never regained his sanity.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored. — Gideon Raff Copy Share Image
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