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“I am writing these short
but deeply felt words from the bottom of my heart, which in spite of these mouldy
walls and these rusty chains with which they try to imprison me, beats faster
than ever in the cause of liberty.
-- Luz
Perly Córdoba Mosquera
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human beings, whatever their cultural or historical background, suffer when they
are intimidated, imprisoned or tortured . . . We must, therefore, insist on a
global consensus, not only on the need to respect human rights worldwide, but
also on the definition of these rights . . . for it is the inherent nature of
all human beings to yearn for freedom, equality and dignity, and they have an
equal right to achieve that."
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Jails and prisons are designed
to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient
to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
-- Angela
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"Imprisonment
has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems."
-- Angela Davis
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Years
ago I recognized my kinship with all living things,
and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better
than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say
now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it;
while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while
there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
-- Eugene
V. Debs
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“While we diminish
the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope,
in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen
the control of the conscience.”
-- Dorothea
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The degree of civilization
in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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