Prison Quotes - Page 39

• I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

  Jim Goad

  Regret, Crime, Feels

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.

  Akbar Ganji

  Space, Iran, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

  Akbar Ganji

  Years, Firsts, Six

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

  Truman Capote

  Guitar, Weapons, Used

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would you not deport them? I mean, you have them. It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people. They are in your jail cell. They're in your prison cell.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Cells, America

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• I hate liver, but I could imagine eating some with a little bit of ketchup. Like, a lot of ketchup. I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

  Rich Fulcher

  Hate, Littles, Imagine

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.

  Rich Fulcher

  Turkish

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I haven't been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f - ed off with those lazy bastards in their bed for 18 hours a day, five dishes a day on a menu to choose from, playing soccer every day, going to the gym, watching movies.

  Chelsea Handler

  Soccer, Years, Lazy

  Source: variety.com

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• The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

  Cleve Jones

  Penalties, Length, States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.

  Manning Marable

  Men, Years, Shooting

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to my country, my academic rigor, my courage in going to interview terrorists, and refugee camps, and third-world prisons.

  Paula Broadwell

  Country, Careers, World

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.

  Hillary Clinton

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• I was really lucky in that my mom and dad never got caught in the act, so to speak. So my mom was caught fraternizing with my dad. My mom was caught, you know, in the building that my father lived in. My mom was caught in a white neighborhood past curfew without the right permits. My mother was caught in transition. And that was key because had she been caught in the act, then, as the law says, she could've spent anywhere up to four years in prison.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact that progress that was made for people of color, for women, for LGBTQ people, are all at risk.

  Ava DuVernay

  Color, Rose, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there's an industry making money and profiting off punishment.

  Ava DuVernay

  Punishment, Firsts, Way

  Source: deadline.com

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• I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.

  Ava DuVernay

  Past, Impact, Talking

  Source: deadline.com

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• Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

  Robert Bly

  People, Church, Longing

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

  Carrie Fisher

  Writing, Community, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Military, Government, Isis

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• Do you know that Yahya Khan's first victim was not to have been Mujib [ Rahman] but myself? Many people in my party were in prison, and at the end of 1970, November 5, 1970, to be exact, he had said to Mujib, "Should I arrest Bhutto or not?" Look, the only reason why he reversed his schedule was that in West Pakistan he couldn't control the situation as in East Pakistan. Besides Mujib has never been intelligent - he let himself be backed into a corner.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Party, Intelligent, People

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• That Mujib [Rahiman] had been arrested I found out at eight in the morning, when I left. How did I take it? I was glad he was alive and I thought they might have maltreated him a little. Then I thought that his arrest might help to reach a compromise. They wouldn't keep him in prison more than a month or two, and in the meantime we'd be able to bring back law and order.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Morning, Two, Eight

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Texas

  Source: wrvo.org

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• We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the rodeo things, they asked me to set up and do two or three songs. So that was what I did. I did "Folsom Prison Blues," which they thought was their song - you know? - and "I Walk The Line," "Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry." And then the word got around on the grapevine that Johnny Cash is all right and that you ought to see him.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Two, Hey

  Source: wrvo.org

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• The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always wanted to record that, you know, to record a show because of the reaction I got. It was far and above anything I had ever had in my life, the complete explosion of noise and reaction that they gave me with every song. So then I came back the next year and played the prison again, the New Year's Day show, came back again a third year and did the show.

  Johnny Cash

  New Year, Song, Years

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

  Johnny Cash

  Talking, February, Columbia

  Source: wrvo.org

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