Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people. — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Keeping some people behind bars often hurts more than it helps - not only for the people who had been incarcerated and… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
She closed her hands around his and shut her eyes, imagining their bed cut free of this strange prison, floating through space… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Somebody goes to a soup kitchen and serves the hungry, someone goes to a prison and tries to get people to turn… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness.… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me. — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the… — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to… — Foxy Brown Copy Share Image
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant Copy Share Image
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there. — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's not a man in there who doesn't regret it. You're in there. You're on your own. Everyone is at their lowest… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
“He’s in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He’s a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder… — D.E. Stevenson 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
“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
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
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
