"The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel."
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"Extreme justice is extreme injustice."
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"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"
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"I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day."
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"Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards"
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"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
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"Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison."
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"The soul is the prison of the body."
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"Your room is not your prison. You are."
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"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
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"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."
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"A mind enclosed in language is in prison."
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"Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in."
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"It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have."
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"Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison."
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"I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You."
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"For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn."
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"I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live."
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"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community."
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"I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse."
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