(56 quotes found)
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra”
Thomas Jefferson
“Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.”
Chanakya
“It really explains a lot. His cavalier attitude towards imprisonment and even death penalties for people who make the same mistakes with drugs he once personally made, his relentless drive to subvert Democracy via election fraud, his removal of basic human rights for all Americans via the Patriot Act, his support of monopolization of all American Business, his tax giveaways to the wealthy while joblessness and poverty are at a level not seen since the days of Herbert Hoover, and his drive towards world domination via a refusal to build consensus with the rest of the world, have all been written off as neo-conservatism, but in reality, even the hardest of right wing ideologies couldn't account for all of the President's behavior.”
David Bernard
“The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time”
Joseph Allen
“She sat down in order that we might stand up. Paradoxically, her imprisonment opened the doors for our long journey to freedom.”
Jesse Jackson
“What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.”
William Shakespeare
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