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Many a wise person has pondered the plight of the prisoner. From Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde to Fyodor Dostoevsky, the issue of imprisonment has inspired many heartfelt remarks. The following quotes speak to our intellect as well as our emotions. In a society that rushes to warehouse human lives, we urge you to slow down, pause, and contemplate the unique reality of imprisonment. We hope you will find yourself thinking - perhaps even feeling - that we can do better.

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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
~Georges Bataille   
 

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
~Alva Myrdal   
 

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
~John Powell   
 

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
~William Blake   
 

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're Black and Latino.
~Lisa Bonet   
 

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
~Virginia Woolf   
 

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
~Gale Sayers   
 

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
~Vladimir Putin   
 

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
~Judge Mills Lane   
 

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell   
 

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