#prison

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#down #frees #imprisoned #like #shelf

Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes to the nourishing possibilities dreamed of and practiced by our ancestors and friends. Every time we insist on accessible and affirming health care, safe and quality education, meaningful and secure employment, loving and healing relationships, and being our full and whole selves, we are doing abolition. Abolition is about breaking down things that oppress and building up things that nourish. Abolition is the practice of transformation in the here and now and the ever after. ↗

— Eric A. Stanley

#prison #dreams

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. ↗

— George Rogers Clark

#become #clark #commonwealth #george #i

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#applied #chair #electricity #expert #father

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#fat #fat man #imprisoned #man #out

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#after #alone #arrive #battalion #command

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country. ↗

— Danny Glover

#among #country #environmentally #find #going

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. ↗

— James Inhofe

#american #block #blood #cell #concerned

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#blood #chain #destiny #faithful #ignorant

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#breaking #destroying #devised #different #down