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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.
If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.
Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information.
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.
We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.
Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.
When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person.
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.
If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.
Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.
Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.
Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.
Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.
The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.
If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.
When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.
If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.
We cannot let it be said of modern Australia that the colour of your skin determines whether or not you end up in jail.
Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.
I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.
Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.
Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.
The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.
I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.
My cousin went to jail, and I was like, 'I don't wanna spend my life in jail.' So I just started DJing, and that was my out.
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.