#imprisoned

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. ↗

— Ma Jian

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With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

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People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. ↗

— George Will

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