#prison

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#class #criminal #element #free #i

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#greater #hell #prisoner #than

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives. ↗

— James McGreevey

#enjoying #hudson #i #jail #lives

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open. ↗

— Bernard Kerik

#eyes #going #like #open #prison

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

#american life #between #choose #destroys #eroticism

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#accepts #arouse #breaks #community #conscience

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#anywhere #condition #crime #customs #deplorable

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#any #been #character #crime #enclose

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all. ↗

— Akshay Kumar

#affects #both #both sides #emotions #how