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

  Jake Lloyd

  Morning, School, Used

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• I was in detention a lot.

  Jake Lloyd

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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 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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• 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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• During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

  Ai Weiwei

  Moon

  Aiww English (beta) @aiwwenglish, twitter.com. December 10, 2011.

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

  Robert Bourassa

  Democratic, Civilised

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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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• 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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• 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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• My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.

  Joseph Estrada

  Matter, Innocence, Prove

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• I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.

  Arnaz Battle

  Teacher, Pet, Trouble

  Source: prod.www.49ers.clubs.nfl.com

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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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• Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Order, Example

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

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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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• [Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.

  Chris Matthews

  War, Believe, Law

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've met with some of their families. I've seen their anguish, how they ache for their sons and husbands. I gave these families my word. I made a vow that we would do everything in our power to win the release of their loved ones, and we have been tireless.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Home, Son

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

  Yukmouth

  Artist, Years, Careers

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