Prisoner Quotes - Page 5

• If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

  David Halberstam

  Past, America, Political

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• When those pictures of Abu Ghraib came out, I thought, my gosh, this is like the tiger cages for prisoners in Vietnam all over again. Only we were actually doing it ourselves, we weren't hiring another government to do it.

  Tom Harkin

  Hiring, Tigers

  Source: progressive.org

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• To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe.

  Mohanbir Sawhney

  Believe, Innovation, Gains

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• Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

  Jamie Fellner

  Pain, Reality, Prison

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• The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality. ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

  Christopher Bullock

  Reality, Needs, Tape

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• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

  Angela Davis

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Ability

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• There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Political, Should

  Source: www.rfa.org

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• If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.

  Rachel Maddow

  Stupid, Media, Issues

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race. There's so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people. That's not to say I'm not standing amongst everybody. But the point is, what can we do now? That's the thing about vegetarianism; it's an individual's decision and it's something you have control over. How many things do we really have control over?

  River Phoenix

  Ignorance, Race, Vegetarianism

  "Vegetarian Times", 1988.

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• My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist movement. For me, politics was about getting drugs approved and getting prisoners access to the same kind of drugs that you could get on the outside. It was about getting needle exchanges approved. That was politics. These were policy problems that were killing people, and we were trying to get them changed.

  Rachel Maddow

  Ideas, People, Drug

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Joy, Surrender

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• Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

  Plato

  Running, Men, Doors

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.

  Amy Poehler

  Hurt, Rain, People

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• I'm happy that now we reveal something about the true Israel, because, you know, now it's Purim, when all the Jews putting mask. And once, we used to have a liberal mask. The most famous mask now in Israel is the mask of a soldier who murdered in cold blood a wounded prisoner of war. Those are the mask that most of the Israeli kids now are using. So, now, when the mask and the true is the same, maybe it's time for Democrats here to stop supporting Israel, if they care about Jews.

  Udi Aloni

  War, Kids, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

  Patrick McGoohan

  People, Different, Village

  Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

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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

  Danny Glover

  Country, People, African American

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• It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Real, Past, Example

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• You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

  Rumi

  Ocean, Ignorance, Unity

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• I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home face really significant challenges when it comes to finding work. It’s very, very hard for most people who have a criminal record to get a job. I think the system is very wasteful of taxpayers’ dollars. It’s also very wasteful of human potential. I found that most people whom I was locked up with were, you know, good people who have skills and value. Prison is a missed opportunity to nurture those things.

  Piper Kerman

  Jobs, Home, Opportunity

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• It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

  Dennis Allen

  Heredity And Environment, Helping, Environment

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• I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

  Kathy Griffin

  Sexy, Men, People

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• The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Light, Climbing, Wind

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• Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

  Agatha Christie

  Bars, Defence

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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