Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him.
I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick or in prison. Whoever keeps himself distant from these places remains distant from Jesus.
I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.
I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
You've got to be willing to look at a guy's face and say I will kill you if I have to. You've got to be willing to look in his face and say that I will stab you, I will hurt you and you can't talk the game, you've got to really act and do the game. Prison is a thing where talking gets you killed. What gets you respect is you do. The guy that you fear is a guy that says nothing.
Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison. " And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.