I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.
I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.
We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
Power isn't the big cars and bent slaves Power is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
