Quotes about Incarceration
If you are born in America with a black skin, you're in prison
— Malcolm X
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
— Joseph Brodsky
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
— Corrie Ten Boom
You don't have to go behind bars to be in jail in this country. If you are born in this country with black skin you are already in jail, you are already confined, you are already watched over by a warden who poses as your mayor and poses as your governor and poses as your President.
— Malcolm X
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
— George Bernard Shaw
and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
— Genesis 40:3
Where I a pris'ner chain'd, scarce freely drawThe air imprison'd also, close and damp,Unwholsome draught; but here I feel amends,The breath of heav'n fresh blowing, pure and sweet,With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.Milton'sSampson Agonistes.
— Samuel Johnson
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
— Job 33:11
And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.
— Acts 16:23
Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.
— Victor Hugo
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such a great meaning.
— Corrie Ten Boom