#prison

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. ↗

— Sun Ra

#american #bars #began #behind #feel

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#embrace #embraced #i #me #prison

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#afghanistan #al-qaeda #arrested #charged #crossing

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? ↗

— Ron Reagan

#around #awful #floating #had #i

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#country #day #did #every #every day

Not all political prisoners are innocents. ↗

— David Remnick

#political #political prisoners #prisoners

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community. ↗

— Janet Reno

#back #come #community #each #four

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #controlled #criminals #get #had

Mind is prison of one's potential which can be freed by his dreams. ↗

— Toba Beta

#prisoner-of-mind #dreams

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself. ↗

— Michael Vick

#bunk #cool #culture #exciting #fun