Abuse Quote by Ingrid Betancourt

Also, this is our lives for a huge part of the year and we did not want to be in prison, 24/7. It was…

— Jenji Kohan

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who…

— Rudolf Hoss

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other…

— David Dellinger

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the…

— Rene Cassin

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and…

— Frank Herbert

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a…

— Orson Scott Card

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin…

— Oscar Wilde

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just…

— Kate Millett

Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did…

— Rachel Caine

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's…

— Orson Scott Card

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these…

— W. Kamau Bell