Prisoner Quotes - Page 25

• I'm no longer a prisoner of my fears. Which really just means I'm using real butter.

  Greg Behrendt

  Real, Mean

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• I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Two, Police

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• I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was common to hold a pistol to the head of prisoners during questioning. So I prepared to make that picture - the threat, the interrogation. But it didn't happen. The man just pulled a pistol out of his holster, raised it to the VC's head and shot him in the temple. I made a picture at the same time. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Ideas, Police

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• Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.

  Dov Davidoff

  Political, Ironic, Middle East

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 18, 2011

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• I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.

  Godfrey

  Gay, Would Be, Prison

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• To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.

  Horst Faas

  Mother, Baby, Expression

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• My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

  Jane Fonda

  Lying, Taken, Issues

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• The prisoner grows to love his chains.

  Plato

  Chains, Grows

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• The sky was black with vultures, named Depression. They would land on the shoulders of a prisoner and vomit on him... Even worse than the vomit from the vultures was a repulsive slime that these demons were urinating and defecating upon the Christians which they rode... However, this slime made the Christians feel so much better... they easily believed that the demons were messengers of God, and they actually thought this slime was the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

  Rick Joyner

  Christian, Land, Sky

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• Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  War, Rocks, Two

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• We will stop the terrorist attacks before they occur because we will not be prisoners to political correctness. Rather, we will speak the truth. Border security is national security and we will not be admitting jihadists as refugees.

  Ted Cruz

  Political, Borders, Border Security

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery.

  Randall Robinson

  Eight, People, Community

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
  With eloquence that's bought.

  Ovid

  Unhappy, Causes, Eloquence

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• I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.

  Louise Hay

  Vocabulary, Not Good Enough, Forever

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• Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.

  John McCain

  Pain, War, Ideas

  "Fog Facts #2" by Larry Beinhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2005.

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• A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.

  Shawn Thompson

  Eye, Years, Nurse

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• When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ghetto, Men, White

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “The Trumpet of Conscience”, p.14, Beacon Press

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• The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

  Quentin Crisp

  Views, Accomplishment, Death Penalty

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• Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

  Mason Cooley

  Freedom, Lateness, Late

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• Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Children, Character, Nuts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

  Gerald Stern

  Giving, Political, Prison

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Islamic, Home, Dark

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.

  Adam Braver

  Government, Political, Guessing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Heart, Opening Up, Amnesty International

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

  Jill Soloway

  Tattoo, Eight, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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