#prison

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. ↗

— Sun Ra

#american #bars #began #behind #feel

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? ↗

— Ron Reagan

#around #awful #floating #had #i

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

#class #criminal #element #free #i

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#doing #dominating #kicking #prisoners #taking

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

#had #happened #him #how #i

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#doubt #expect #i #no doubt #prison

There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#bahrain #because #criminals #express #only

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#any #been #character #crime #enclose

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#abuse #accountable #america #army #been

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#avoid #beyond #goes #insofar #keep