Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
“The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength… — Sakae Menda Copy Share Image
“My heart was beating so hard that for a second I thought I might pass out. It was like revisiting the hole… — Heather King Copy Share Image
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Life is a solitary confinement , Every second is a punishment - of a crime , that was never committed , Or… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
“A family trip to Jersey – that’s the Channel Islands, not New Jersey, folks – netted brand-new gatefold editions of Van der… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Our inner dialogue is frequently composed of old tape loops that we run again and again... The normal personality marshals sufficient defense… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“I am often reminded how a small fire underneath a vast sky can bind people together like nothing else. For all that… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as… — Gary Chapman 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
“Evoke at painful junctures, when discouragement threatens to raise its head, the image of a vast cretinous mouth, red blubber and slobbering,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
“Jordan Two, on the other hand, was condemned to a state of being that made the harshest solitary confinement look like a… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down.… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way:… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image