68 Quotes About Imprisonment

The truth is that our individual efforts are important but insufficient. Our collective action -- the leaders we elect, the institutions administered in the name of the People, the other stanchions at the table --- offers an opportunity for bigger, longer-lasting action.

Throw the bums out" and "Drain the swamp" are popular political slogans. But it's not enough to move people around in a bureaucracy if you don't change the underlying values and let those values reshape tactics and procedures.

Our country has a long history, and for much of it the intentional policy of the United States was to create hierarchies of people based on their class, race, and gender.

هو الخوف جعل آباءكم يحشرونكم و أجدادكم يحشرونكم جماعات جماعاتو ذلك الخوف سيرافقكم بعد و لو لأجل قصيرو لأجل قصير ستبقى أسوار مدينتكم حاجزا ما بين مواقدكم و بين حقولكم

Putting a man’s life to waste is not justice.

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.

Never let your mind imprison your achievements by imposing disbelief on you.

she feels still that grasp upon her ankle as if it were a circlet of iron: the embodiment of matrimony. She would be pinned, like the museum butterflies. He would remain free to flutter.

One can be a prisoner at home in one's own bed as well as in a penitentiary.