Freedom Jail Quotes

#1. Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure

Sting

#2. Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

Coretta Scott King

#3. There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other.

Markus Zusak

#5. I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.

Mary Astor

#6. Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

Victor Hugo

#7. The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

Piers Corbyn

#8. THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE WHILE LIES SHALL PUT YOU IN JAIL

Nelson M. Lubao

#9. When once one believes in a creed, one is proud of its complexity, as scientists are proud of the complexity of science. It shows how rich it is in discoveries. If it is right at all, it is a compliment to say that it's elaborately right.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. When a child is born in a jail and during their life all they know is the jail they were born into, the idea of freedom becomes so terrifying that they ridicule the very thought of being free, as a clinical illness. It is nothing like the song that a caged bird sings.

Alejandro C. Estrada

#11. Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.

Meek Mill

#12. I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

Margaret Atwood

#14. I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one?

Martijn Benders

#15. Oran is exile and Tetuan is imprisonment. And since I am happier in Tetuan than in Oran, that means I prefer jail in my native land to freedom in exile.

Mohamed Choukri

#16. The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

Kate Williams

#17. I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

George Papandreou

#18. We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom,
We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them,
Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

Kanye West

#19. There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Delia Ephron

#20. Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

Richard Stallman

#21. 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.

Flavor Flav

#22. Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

Nas

#23. I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom ... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

Ralph Abernathy

#24. Always count your blessings. Be thankful you are able to be out on a beautiful course. Most people in the world don't have that opportunity.

Fred Couples

#25. Let freedom ka-ching ... Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

Stephen Colbert

#26. If you live life on your own terms it shouldn't feel like a jail cell.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#28. And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Tom Lehrer

#29. LOOK! EVEN I HAVE DONE WRONG, I HAVE BEEN SENT INTO JAIL. WHAT IS THE USE OF STRIKE? GO STRIKE. BUT THE COUNTRY NEEDS ITS FUTURE! IT'S EDUCATION! KILL THE CRIMINAL LIKE ME

Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#30. True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Rajneesh

#31. I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.

Nelson Mandela