Quotes

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.