#prison

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#chain #destroy #even #imprison #me

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#criminal justice #criminal justice system #figure #i #i think

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #black #country #ever #founded

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#because #chinese #chinese government #chose #citizen

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#came #caught #changed #could #crime

In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#country #first #go #president #prison

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#contracts #enter #free #free men #freedom

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#contracts #enter #free #free men #into

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#etc #himself #must #never #prisoner

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#condemn #confinement #creatures #deserve #fellow