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Many a wise person has pondered the plight of the prisoner. From Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde to Fyodor
Dostoevsky, the issue of imprisonment has inspired many heartfelt remarks. The following quotes speak to our
intellect as well as our emotions. In a society that rushes to warehouse human lives, we urge you to slow down,
pause, and contemplate the unique reality of imprisonment. We hope you will find yourself thinking - perhaps
even feeling - that we can do better.
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
~George Bernard Shaw
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There are no beautiful prisons or ugly loved ones.
~French Proverb
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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
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Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
~Mike Epps
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
~H. L. Mencken
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And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
~Jeffrey Archer
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
~Naguib Mahfouz
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
~W. C. Fields
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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
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