Prison Quotes - Page 40

• I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

  Malcolm X

  Atheist, Believe

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Islam, Connections

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

  Malcolm X

  Evil, Vices, Authority

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Way, Prison System

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

  Malcolm X

  Inmates, Propaganda, Function

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

  Malcolm X

  People

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• [People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

  Malcolm X

  Dope, People, Inmates

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.

  Malcolm X

  New York, Trying, Green

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

  Malcolm X

  Taught, Type

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove the white from the mind of the white man and the negro from the mind of the negro. I have seen what Islam has done with our people, our people who had this feeling of negro - and it had a psychological effect of putting them in a mental prison.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

  Nat Hentoff

  War, Thinking, Russia

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.

  Clara Jeffery

  Beautiful, Dad, Jail

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.

  Chelsea Manning

  Military, Years, Six

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.

  Chelsea Manning

  School, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Thirty, Stills

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

  Kevin Drum

  Mean, Environment, Committed

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• Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

  Kevin Drum

  Fall, America, Long

  "We’ve Reached #cut50 For Young Black Men" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2017.

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• While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many of our children are fatherless, far too many of our mothers are standing in the prison waiting rooms and far too many of our young people feel hopeless.

  T.I.

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.

  Patricia Arquette

  Impact, California, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

  Patricia Arquette

  Girl, United States, Earth

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and made it more likely that others would join the ranks of her fallen comrades. Her prison sentence may end in a few months' [time], but her dishonor will last forever.

  John McCain

  Iraq, Forever, May

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.

  Varg Vikernes

  Thinking, Growth, Would Be

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of, you know, medieval idea. All right, instead of just cooking them, why don't you spend, like, eight hours peeling them and then we'll have to mash them up. It feels like prison labor, really.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Mean, Eight, Ideas

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even prison services, nonetheless national sovereignty still needs to be exercised.

  Mary Robinson

  Mean, Government, Needs

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

  David Swanson

  War, Cities, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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