#prisoner

Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners. ↗

— Paul W. Silver

#prisoners #students #dreams

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear. ↗

— Ghassan Kanafani

#prisoners #resistance #short-story

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#prisoners #science-fiction #freedom

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#also #as far as #birthday #call #calling

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. ↗

— Danny Glover

#african americans #bad #bad times #black #country

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders. ↗

— William Hague

#defenders #disgrace #ethnic #human #human rights

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts. ↗

— Nazim Hikmet

#forget #good #good thoughts #must #prisoner

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. ↗

— King Hussein I

#become #beliefs #believe #flexible #god

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair. ↗

— Brian May

#danger #flick #hair #i #magazines