Prison Quotes - Page 40

• I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

  Malcolm X

  Atheist, Believe

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

  Malcolm X

  People

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• [People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

  Malcolm X

  Dope, People, Inmates

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

  Malcolm X

  Taught, Type

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

  Nat Hentoff

  War, Thinking, Russia

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.

  Clara Jeffery

  Beautiful, Dad, Jail

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.

  Chelsea Manning

  Military, Years, Six

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.

  Chelsea Manning

  School, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

  Kevin Drum

  Fall, America, Long

  "We’ve Reached #cut50 For Young Black Men" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2017.

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• While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many of our children are fatherless, far too many of our mothers are standing in the prison waiting rooms and far too many of our young people feel hopeless.

  T.I.

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Talking

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• To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wall, Mirrors, Self

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems II: Poems Selected & New 1976-1986”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.

  Varg Vikernes

  Thinking, Growth, Would Be

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

  Sam Sheppard

  Relationship, Mother, Father

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• ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

  Oscar Wilde

  Father, Oxford, Two

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.99, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Finding Yourself, Signatures, May

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands. The language of magic and gardening. II”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Defense, Should, Make Sense

  "A Lawyer's Life".

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• That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

  Jack Abbott

  Hurt, It Hurts, Take Me

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Community, Three, Felons

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• We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.335, University of Georgia Press

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• It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Years

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• The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Stones, Infamous

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• It is grievous to be caught.

  Horace

  Caught

  "Satires". Book I. 2. 134,

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• A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Crime, Impossibility

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  Ramsey Clark

  Criminals, Way, Individual

  Keynote address to American Correctional Association conference, Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 1967

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