Prison Quotes - Page 7

• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Jail, Fragility

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers, court clerks, the list goes on and on. Many predominately white rural communities have come to believe that their local economies depend on prisons for jobs.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Believe, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Fear, School

  Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”

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• Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Education, Running, Retirement

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• I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the time - and then they'll fight for better prison libraries or whatever. It's like they're missing the big picture. If I were in prison, of course I would prefer to be outside doing physical labour. It's not physical labour but prison life that kills a person. It's so bad inside that the outside jobs are often sought after. So, yeah, call them work crews and let them do it. At the same time the retributive side can feel the cons are being punished.

  Peter Moskos

  Fighting, People, Missing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Crazy, People, House

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Dark

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• Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace

  Philip Bailey

  Mother, Determination, Memories

  FaceBook post by Philip Bailey from Dec 07, 2013

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• In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

  William Wordsworth

  Doom

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.159

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• I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.

  James Anthony Froude

  House, Stronger, Burning

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.17

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• If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Men, Iron

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

  John D. MacDonald

  Heterosexuality, Cures

  John D. MacDonald (1987). “The Long Lavender Look”, Fawcett

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• People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.

  Aldis Hodge

  Real, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive history. Nelson Mandela did it alone from his prison cell. Ghandi did it lying down. Egypt did it singing songs.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Lying, Singing

  "Al Gore Rhythms" by Jason Mraz, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

  Randall Robinson

  Men, People, Justice

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• There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

  William Glasser

  Funny, Jobs, Learning

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• The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

  Eric Schlosser

  United States, Inmates, Fast Food Nation

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

  Huey Newton

  People, Community, Bases

  "Revolutionary Suicide". Book by Huey Newton (p. 190), 1973.

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• The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Lonely, Frustration, Self

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• Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Answers, Burden, Oneself

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• Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].

  Victoria Wood

  Party, People, Luck

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• For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Writing, Way, Language

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is what happens about 70% of the time.

  Michelle Alexander

  People, Doe, Happens

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Blood, Desperate, Resolution

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• If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

  John Locke

  Punishment, Mind, Supple

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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