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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
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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
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More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
~John Powell
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
~William Blake
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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
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
~Virginia Woolf
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
~Gale Sayers
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We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
~Vladimir Putin
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Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
~Judge Mills Lane
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Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
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