#arrest

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#days #fact #festival #god #having

Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#arrested #attacks #been #convicted #department

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school. ↗

— Pat Boone

#high #high school #i #may #school

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#certain #consequences #deterrent #effect #factor

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested. ↗

— Howie Carr

#back #basically #edgar #fbi #find

I was arrested three times and tortured once. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#i #once #three #times #tortured

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#been #borders #century #convergence #customs

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#abuse #anymore #arrests #child #child abuse