Detention Quotes

• Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

  John Yoo

  Hands, Doe, Territory

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• I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

  Jake Lloyd

  Morning, School, Used

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• I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

  Amanda Holden

  Tattoo, School, Ears

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• I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

  Luke Perry

  School, Gun, Fake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was in detention a lot.

  Jake Lloyd

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• With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending from homeless shelters and bad schools to bulging detention centers and prisons.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Play, Roles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• President Obama and Hillary Clinton support sanctuary cities. They support catch and release on the border. They support visa overstays. They support the release of dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, criminals from detention. And, they support unconstitutional executive amnesty.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Support, President

  "Donald Trump Delivers Speech on Immigration Policy; Interview with Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Senator Tim Kaine; Trump Calls for "Extreme Vetting" of Immigrant". "New Day", www.cnn.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Hurt, Rights

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• I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals.

  Jeff Kinney

  Rooms, Firsts, Criminals

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• It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Government

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• How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Father, Thinking, Law

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• This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed, were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.

  Rudolf Hoss

  Men, Prison Guards, Hands

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• In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

  Matt Taibbi

  Years, Land, Rest Of Your Life

  "Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 14, 2013.

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• There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

  Robert Bourassa

  Democratic, Civilised

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• The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Law, Abuse

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  Maggie Grace

  Legs, Fit, Too Short

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

  Kate Millett

  Jail, Mind, Steps

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• You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on where you go - what floor or what cellblock. For me, you go in, and you're just in with a bunch of other people who are in serving their time. You're just in there. It's just boring. You're in detention, essentially.

  Jayson Werth

  Taken, Thinking, Jail

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• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Teacher, Children, Moving

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• I can see how weird I was. One day I decided the school needed a Christmas tree and spent hours dragging this huge beast of a tree into school. No one was pleased. I got two weeks detention because I was 45 minutes late and had made a big mess of leaves and soil all over the building. All the kids just laughed at me.

  Mika

  School, Kids, Two

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• When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

  Matthew Bellamy

  School, Awards, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

  Barack Obama

  People, Borders, Tradition

  "Former NATO Commander Reacts To Obama's Foreign Policy Speech". www.npr.org. May 28, 2014.

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• Be your kid's collaborative partner, but also be a collaborative partner with the folks at school. Schools can be pretty unilateral too. Show them you know how to collaborate. Show them this is not about power. Let them know detentions and suspensions and paddling don't solve the problems that are affecting kids' lives. Those problems can be identified and solved but not by being punitive.

  Ross W. Greene

  School, Kids, Paddling

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court.

  Edward Snowden

  Organization, People, Secret

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• I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high school I went to was a private school. It was prep school. It was a boarding school. So we didn't have a shop class. We didn't have Saturday detention. We went to school on Saturday. We did have Sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. Who wants that?

  Judd Nelson

  School, Sunday, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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