Prison Quotes - Page 37

• There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

  Taryn Manning

  Character, People, Criminals

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

  Marion Dudley Cran

  Nature, Home, Green Fields

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• The palace we built has become a prison.

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  Palaces, Built

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• I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.

  Eric Schlosser

  Country, Book, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The rage building up, generation after generation, among what has become a permanent underclass in many parts of the world cannot continue. We are desperately undereducating our children. In the United States, we are turning prison-building into the single largest urban industry. These are like toxic chemical factors any one of which could cause a raging fire. God help us if they begin to interact.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Fire, Building Up

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We have over the years proven again and again that every piece of evidence used to convict me has been false. The FBI with its unlimited resources has done everything it possibly can to keep me in prison.

  Leonard Peltier

  Years, Done, Pieces

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

  Sam Branson

  People, Police, Interest

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• What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

  Huey Newton

  Thinking, Trying, Illusion

  Source: www.afro.com

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• I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

  Huey Newton

  Party, Gun, Years

  Source: www.afro.com

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• When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love our neighbor as ourself. We care about dismantling institutional racism. That begins in relationships when you see injustice happen.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Men, Racism

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• Often, one discovery leads to interest in another. After the Dauphin's heart had undergone DNA testing and was placed in the crypt at St. Denis, I think people wanted some closure to the story about the fate of the royal couple's only child who survived the gruesome Temple Prison. I know I did.

  Susan Nagel

  Couple, Children, Heart

  Source: teaattrianon.blogspot.com

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• Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.

  Dick Durbin

  Years, People, Birth Control

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Steps, Judgment

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• We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  School, Average, Three

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

  James Fox

  Sadness, Feelings, Weakness

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• I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

  James Fox

  Important, Sixth Sense, Walks

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• I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need to put our efforts - if we want to think long-range and invest in the community so that we don't have to, you know, invest in prisons - into making a change, because I know that the library can make a change in a life, because it made a change in mine.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Long, Effort

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Interview with Ruth Behar.

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• Whether I'm feeding the homeless, stopping by a high school to chat with teens, visiting a prison or local jail, I think that the greatest service you can give is yourself. To be able to help someone who is not in a position to help themselves or possibly ever repay you.

  Raheem Devaughn

  School, Thinking, Jail

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, September 9, 2014.

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• I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Grandchildren, Night, Illinois

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Men, Solitude

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• If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

  Steven Bochco

  Prison Time, Done, Taste

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• Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Writing, Thinking, Leaving

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• By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

  Cynthia Payne

  Girl, Vices, Campaigns

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• Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

  Michel Foucault

  Population

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