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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
Author:
John Yoo
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Author:
Ellen Wilkinson
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Author:
Simone Weil
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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Author:
Harry Truman
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I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Author:
Craig Thomas
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I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
Author:
Lee Tergesen
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I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.
Author:
Lee Tergesen
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One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Author:
Lewis Tappan
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The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
Author:
Serj Tankian
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When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.
Author:
Max Sydow
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A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
Author:
John Spratt
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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Author:
Yakov Smirnoff
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.
Author:
Tim Roth
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Author:
Valentino Rossi
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But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.
Author:
George Ripley
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We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Author:
Janet Reno
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That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.
Author:
Ishmael Reed
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I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?
Author:
Ron Reagan
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I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Author:
Barry Pepper
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By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
Author:
Cynthia Payne
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I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
Author:
Marie Osmond
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Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.
Author:
Shaquille O'Neal
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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Author:
Huey Newton
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Author:
Ted Nelson
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Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
Author:
Frank Morgan
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When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
Author:
Ho Minh
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I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Author:
H. Mencken
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It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
Author:
Thomas Mellon
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In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
Author:
Joel McHale
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
Author:
Patrick McGoohan
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In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Author:
Nelson Mandela
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Author:
Patrick Macnee
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Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true.
Author:
Catharine MacKinnon
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Author:
Richard Lovelace
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I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
Author:
Christopher Love
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Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.
Author:
Tom Lantos
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Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Author:
Suge Knight
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In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Author:
Suge Knight
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
Author:
Janis Karpinski
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The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
Author:
Janis Karpinski
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I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.
Author:
Janis Karpinski
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Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.
Author:
Peter Jurasik
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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Author:
Mary Jones
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
Author:
Bruce Jackson
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Author:
Muhammad Iqbal
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And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
Author:
David Icke
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A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Author:
Robert Hutchins
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
Author:
Tony Hillerman
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
Author:
Denis Healey
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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
Author:
Merle Haggard
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
Author:
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Author:
William Gurnall
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The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
Author:
William Gurnall
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In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
Author:
William Greider
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Author:
Germaine Greer
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Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
Author:
Lindsey Graham
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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Author:
Danny Glover
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Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
Author:
Danny Glover
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Author:
Antonia Fraser
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Author:
Michel Foucault
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Author:
Malcolm Forbes
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
Author:
Fernando Flores
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Author:
W. Fields
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I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.
Author:
Fred Fielding
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I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.
Author:
Freddy Fender
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Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Author:
Mike Epps
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Author:
Philip Emeagwali
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Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Author:
Philip Emeagwali
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
Author:
Daniel Drew
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But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Author:
Janice Dickinson
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While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Author:
Eugene Debs
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
Author:
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
Author:
Angela Davis
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Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they belong and kept away from our Nation's children.
Author:
Jim Costa
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I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
Author:
Gregory Corso
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I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Author:
Charles Colson
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Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Author:
Johnnie Cochran
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Author:
Eldridge Cleaver
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
Author:
George Bush
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With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.
Author:
Steve Buscemi
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Author:
Steve Buscemi
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
Author:
Pat Brown
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It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
Author:
Stephen Breyer
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If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
Author:
Belle Boyd
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I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.
Author:
Michael Biehn
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Author:
Daniel Berrigan
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Author:
Daniel Berrigan
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I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
Author:
Daniel Berrigan
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The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.
Author:
Peter Benenson
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Author:
Beck
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When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
Author:
Jim Bakker
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To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
Author:
Jim Bakker
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Author:
Michael Badnarik
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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
Author:
Julian Assange
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
Author:
Julian Assange
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His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
Author:
Maurice Ashley
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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Author:
Edwin Arnold
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I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
Author:
Mary Archer
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I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Author:
Jeffrey Archer
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
Author:
Jeffrey Archer
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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Author:
Jeffrey Archer
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But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.
Author:
Jeffrey Archer
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I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
Author:
Jeffrey Archer
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Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
Author:
Jeffrey Archer
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Author:
Jack Abbott
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Author:
Jack Abbott
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Author:
Jack Abbott
