Prison Quotes

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

Expectations are the mental prison. Free your mind with no expectations.

At least my cage is filled with light.