That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
Jack Henry Abbott
LifeDayMePrisonMy LifeInside
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
Julian Assange
TimeOrganizationPrisonMediaWrite
With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.
Steve Buscemi
AnimalPrisonThinkYouCooperation
If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
J. K. Simmons
BestPeopleWorldSpeakPrisonYou
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Huey Newton
PrisonDownWillMovementHoldOur
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
Sufjan Stevens
WallsSchoolPrisonLightsMetal
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
Kamala Harris
BelievePrisonSeriousHoldMust
I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
Hill Harper
CommunityPrisonSomeoneKnowWant
If I hadn't been in prison, maybe I wouldn't have gotten all those prison roles.
Tony Burton
PrisonBeenThoseMaybeRoles
When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
Gallant
New YorkCityMePrisonYouLook
The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
Gloria Estefan
FatherMusicAgeDeathPrisonSlow
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.
Robin Wasserman
WindHairPrisonFriendsSwingTop
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
Carl Hart
PeoplePrisonBetterLearnYouGo
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.
George Ripley
WorkWaterFirePrisonWillWay
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.
Ron Shock
WordsMePrisonWayWriteMade
My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
Aaron Douglas
MePrisonInterestingHeadSpin
I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.
Fred Korematsu
PrisonAmericanRememberCitizen
I sample a little bit of everything - a bit of 'House,' a little bit of 'Prison Break.' I love 'Project Runway;' it's my favorite show!
Michaela Conlin
LovePrisonHouseProjectEverything
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Barry Pepper
MePrisonNowSeeGuardJust
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
Emmeline Pankhurst
SufferingPrisonComfortableMatter
Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.
Michelle Alexander
BusinessBuildingPrisonImmigrants
The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse.
Elizabeth Flock
PrisonSystemThingsCostsWorse
After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy, or the equivalent of jaywalking - arrested and then sent to prison and then leased to plantations.
MenSlaveryPrisonEndStanding
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
David Icke
FreedomHistoryPeoplePrisonSpeech
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Prison