#prison

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. ↗

— Danny Glover

#african americans #bad #bad times #black #country

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#although #am #being #i #i am

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#better off #better way #business #close #complicated

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction. ↗

— Stedman Graham

#five #folks #i #most #prison

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then. ↗

— Ronnie Hawkins

#being #below #prisoner #rock #roll

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession. ↗

— Richard Diaz

#education #prison #profession #education

It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other. ↗

— Edward Humes

#prison #life

Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#free #life-lessons #living #prisoner #reality

These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is prison all the same. And the Outsider? He is in prison too: nearly every Outsider in this book has told us so in a different language; but he knows it. His desire is to escape. But a prison-break is not an easy matter; you must know all about your prison, otherwise you might spend years in tunnelling, like the Abbe in The Count of Monte Cristo, and only find yourself in the next cell. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#prison #freedom