"You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking."
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"I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world."
"As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many."
"One prisoner of conscience is one too many."
"I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear."
"We are the prisoners of ideas."
"Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life."
"Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme."
"A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner."
"It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons."
"Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought."
"John McCain was a prisoner of war."
"Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo."