I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise.… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
“They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“They looked like linebackers on a prison football team, whose idea of commincation was to smash into something at full speed, preferably… — John Verdon Copy Share Image
I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“And on the second OOOOOOOO, you picture just a naked glowing green skull that hangs there vibrating gape-mouthed in a prison cell.… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill. — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
There were a lot of moments in my life where I could have died or I could have ended up serving 20… — IronE Singleton Copy Share Image
I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord… — Mehdi Dibaj Copy Share Image
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
“In the penal system, where many of these people would eventually end up, the rapidly growing problem of petty crime had already… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
“The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We have to use incarceration to set people up on a path to stability, so they do not continue committing crimes when… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Send me away to a prison where they keep magicians. So I can perform my magic for those who are in the… — Ray Buckley Copy Share Image
We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss — John Locke Copy Share Image
I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to… — Dave Madden Copy Share Image
Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like… — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of… — Stefan Karl Stefansson Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Rather than serving in the U.S. Senate for almost 20 years or having so many other wonderful life experiences, I could have… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if… — Kevin Powell Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring,… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know,… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
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