Black-man Quote by Darnell Lamont Walker

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

“every human being is… equally unfree, that is, we… create out of freedom, a prison….”

— Ernest Becker

“Any place you don’t want to stay becomes your prison! That’s why there are many prisoners all around the world who look like free…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The illusion of freedom is just another sort of prison-”

— Lisa Mantchev

“And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet.”

— Michelle Alexander

“Freedom’s an illusion. We all live in prisons of our own making.”

— Skye Warren

“I'm in prison because I'm a free man, because I found it necessary to exercise my freedom, because I accepted this necessity.”

— Jorge Semprún

“Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where…

— Upton Sinclair

“Over months of being with him, my prison had become my sanctuary, and now that I was free, the world was my prison. There…

— Kitty Thomas

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie