Prisoner Quotes - Page 15

• If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.

  Deepak Chopra

  Military, Gmo Foods, Gmos

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Past, Leader, World

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• Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Pain, Long, Humanity

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• One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Conscience

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.

  John Pilger

  Land, Choices, Soldier

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• A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Hatred, Prejudice

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion

  Harvey Fierstein

  Mean, Thinking, Yesterday

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• How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Men, People

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• To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Roger, Geek, Shots

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so you want to flush them out. You've got to show all sides of them. There is definitely an antagonistic relationship between guards and prisoners, and I do think it flares up.

  Jenji Kohan

  Character, Thinking, Flare Up

  Source: collider.com

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• It takes no prisoners. We had to completely change wardrobe for the girls because we had summer wardrobe set and it was so frigidly cold while we were shooting. And the bug population was through the roof, that summer. It was just silly! The fact that we even survived at all is shocking. The fact that we came out of it with a movie that I really like is awe-inspiring.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Summer, Silly

  Source: collider.com

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• ... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Men, Offering

  Elie Wiesel (1993). “Sages and Dreamers: Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Portraits and Legends”, Touchstone Books

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• John McCain was a prisoner of war.

  Fred Thompson

  War, Prisoner Of War, Mccain

  2008 Republican National Convention Address, Delivered 2 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

  James C. Collins

  War, Book, Greatness

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• When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive.

  Maia Szalavitz

  War, Home, June

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• Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

  Johnny Cash

  Audience, Entertainers

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• There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Powerful, Party

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• When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execu­tion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Reading, Night

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.

  Sekou Odinga

  Hero, People, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

  Sekou Odinga

  People, Political, Knows

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.

  Sekou Odinga

  Political, Facts, Asking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am because the Chinese have agreed - entered into this agreement in 1997. It sets out the circumstances in which the release of a prisoner who is the subject of a transfer may occur in exceptional circumstances. So the Chinese, having agreed to those principles, I'm sure have no objection to them being applied in this particular case.

  George Brandis

  Agreement, Chinese, May

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• [Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man, welcoming refugees to the Vatican, strolling through a shanty town in Rome, visiting a home for the elderly, washing the feet of prisoners on Holy Thursday, and going to a hospital for newborns.

  John I. Jenkins

  Powerful, Home, Men

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the war we were able to control it. In fact the Pakistanis were astonished by this. There were prisoners in the camp hospitals who exclaimed, 'What? You're a Hindu doctor and you want to cure me?'

  Indira Gandhi

  War, Doctors, India

  Source: sangam.org

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• The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always wanted to record that, you know, to record a show because of the reaction I got. It was far and above anything I had ever had in my life, the complete explosion of noise and reaction that they gave me with every song. So then I came back the next year and played the prison again, the New Year's Day show, came back again a third year and did the show.

  Johnny Cash

  New Year, Song, Years

  Source: wrvo.org

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