Quotes with prison

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  • Bobby Fischer I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
    (1999)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Angela Davis I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Hunter S. Thompson If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Belle Boyd If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Abraham Polonsky Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Bobby Sands It lights the dark of this prison cell,
    It thunders forth its might,
    It is 'the undauntable thought', my friend,
    That thought that says 'I'm right!
    The Rhythm of Time
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Bobby Fischer Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
    Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Barney Frank Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones - Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bill Bryson Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
    The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Harry Houdini No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Winston Churchill Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • A. E. Housman Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
    And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
    And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
    Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
    Additional Poems (1937) No. 18, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Peter Ustinov Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Oscar Wilde One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Michel Foucault Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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