#prison

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#character #formidable #i #needs #prison

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#above #affiliations #everybody #imprisoned #own

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. ↗

— John Powell

#been #children #more #our #percent

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#being famous #driving #famous #far #ferrari

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#commitment #due #experienced #expressed #fact

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#around #bag #better #breathing #canvas

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ↗

— Graham Greene

#go #impossible #imprisoned #life #oneself

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My home made education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London asking questions. One was, “What’s your alma mater?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man. ↗

— Malcolm X

#education #hope #prison #prison-industrial-complex #race

A prison chaplain in the West of England confessed he had given up one prisoner as hopeless, so stubborn was he against any approach by him, and known throughout the jail as the most truculent and obstinate troublemaker. But one day the governor was told of a visitor who insisted on seeing him. To his surprise, it was a little girl. "He's my daddy," she explained, "It's his birthday." The governor allowed the prisoner to be sent for. "Daddy," said the child as he was brought in, "this was your birthday, so I wanted to come and see you." Then taking a lock of hair out of her pocket, she offered it to him. "I had no money to buy a present for you. But I brought this, a lock of my own hair." The prisoner broke down and clasped her in his arms, sobbing. He became a changed man after that and guarded, as his most precious possession, the lock of hair that reminded him that somebody still loved him. ↗

— Francis Gay

#hair #love #prisoner #change

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. ↗

— William Glasser

#job #only #over #places #precedence