Quotes with prison

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  • Bud Grant There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Huey Newton There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
    To Die for the People (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Bhagat Singh Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Donne We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Oscar Wilde We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carlos Fuentes What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Angela Davis When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Eugene V. Debs While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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  • Bill Hicks Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
    Rant in E-Minor
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Sir Edwin Arnold Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
    Sir Edwin Arnold
    English poet and journalist (1832 - 1904)
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski 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
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Home is the girl's prison.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ford It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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