#prisoner

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#along #always #arrested #because #go

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. ↗

— Tom McClintock

#free #hold #prisoners #societies

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#men #minds #only #own #prisoners

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#around #bag #better #breathing #canvas

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#feel #history #i #our #own

[...] during one train stop, I watched as another guard with a spirit of empathy, ran out into an apple orchard and picked apples. He carried his jacket like a bag and filled it with apples. The kind German came to our open train window and handed us each an apple. The juicy apple tasted so delicious. I so appreciated that apple and his unusual compassion. ↗

— Oliver Omanson

#food-shortage #nazis #prisoner-of-war #world-war-ii #food

I am not a number; I am a free man. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#freedom #individuality #nonconformity #the-prisoner #freedom

If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#free #freedom #prisoner #trapped #freedom

A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. “Jasper does that if—” Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. “If he thinks you’re dead or too weak to fight.” “Jasper?” “I call him that, but I’ve also named the stones in my cell.” “I only counted mine,” Arista said. “Two hundred and thirty-four,” Degan replied instantly. “I have two hundred and twenty-eight.” “Did you count the cracked ones as two?” “No. ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#humor #prisoners #humor

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life. ↗

— Raegan Butcher

#poetry #prisoners #humor