"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."
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"I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general."
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"Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison."
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"Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life."
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"In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either."
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"I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison."
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"When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both."
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"A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion."
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"I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison."
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"Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison."
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"If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all."
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"In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is."
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"When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace."
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"What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison."
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"The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative."
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"They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'."
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"God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison."
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"I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows"
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"By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison."
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"The severest justice may not always be the best policy"
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