#prison

As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs on my wrists and remembered the physical suffering and mental anguish I had endured while fighting with all the willpower and intellect God had given me for that rare and elusive thing in a Communist country called justice. Pg. 351 ↗

— Nien Cheng

#communism #mao #prison #death

Di mana pun aku berada, aku selalu berdoa agar kamu bahagia. ↗

— Irin Sintriana

#prisoner-of-ur-heart #love

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#brother #i #i think #just #last

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 asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#had #happened #him #how #i

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

— Bernard Kerik

#eyes #going #like #open #prison

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

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in. ↗

— Tim Roth

#asking #down #ever #get #guard

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#death penalty #effective #enforcement #more #penalty