Prisoners Quotes
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Prison Quotes
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Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape
Loren Eiseley
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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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Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
Joanna Lumley
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Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We`re kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
Patti LaBelle
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Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
Allan Kline
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Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
Alan Zemaitis
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When I`m forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it`s all I can do to refrain from attack.
Alfred Balauro
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We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Ambrosia Anderson
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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
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody`s going down.
Lance Armstrong
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There`s not a lot of substance in what the minister is saying. The last time they addressed this issue they ended up sending rebates to federal prisoners and all kinds of ineligible people because it was so poorly designed.
John Duncan
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The worst thing that happens is someone comes out of the bullpen (an area in which prisoners are held to await court proceedings). Someone comes down here. Someone leaves the door open. Someone gets a weapon and they go back upstairs, ... I wouldn`t want ...
David Patterson
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Aleta Jackson
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The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.
Ali Allawi
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
Albert Alschuler
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The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn`t prove that that was wrong; so we`re clearer about that.
Peter Singer
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Some people can put up with the pressure of being locked up in a maximum-security environment with a large number of prisoners, and some can`t, ... You really don`t know until you put them in that situation. I think his size will be a great help to him.
Larry Campbell
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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 deat...
Danny Glover
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She`s the perfect icon for our time, ... She takes no prisoners, she does whatever she damn well pleases and she looks fabulous doing it. She`s the only woman I know of who men and women both want to sleep with. Even gay men!
Fern Mallis
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Michael Badnarik
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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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Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
Ali Allawi
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Corazon Aquino
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It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to ...
Alicia Molik
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It is expensive, but it`s a commitment the county has made to keep prisoners in jail to serve sentences and to avoid overcrowding,
Atish Kala
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It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.
Akhmed Zakayev
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It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda`s intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.
Allan Kline
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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.
Amir Peretz
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Daniel Boone
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In my worst nightmares I never imagined that my people wouldn`t care about the mitzvah of rescuing prisoners to such an extent that they would bring to power my former commander -- the man who betrayed and abandoned me for 21 years.
Andy Landers
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