Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Sands

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

Edwin Louis Cole

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

Nelson Mandela

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

P. J. O'Rourke

There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

Barry Pepper

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

Sam Bahour

We live in open-air prisons with a wall around us.

Carrie Snow

I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.

Nada Doumani

For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.

Asif Ali Zardari

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Charles Colson

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

John Tucker

We stayed with the prison bus, and once we were in New Orleans, we never saw any cops.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Anna Sewell

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.