#imprison

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

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I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime? ↗

— Criss Jami

#apologetics #atrocities #belief #bias #biases

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#i #imprison #mould #our #refuse

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. ↗

— Anna Freud

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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#fashion #form #imprisonment #should

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#because #being #could #first #first world

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. ↗

— Peter Benenson

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