Quotes About Pows

#1. One always has riches when one has a book to read.

Jacqueline Winspear

#2. Even when my girls were little, we'd go down there, my grandmother tells us. And people'd be marching. The marching didn't just start yesterday. Police with those dogs, scared everybody near to death. Just once I let my girls march.

Jacqueline Woodson

#3. Every morning, the Omori POWs were assembled and ordered to call out their number in Japanese. After November 1, 1944, the man assigned number twenty-nine would sing out "Niju ku!" at the top of his lungs.

Laura Hillenbrand

#4. I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

Henry Rollins

#6. Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

Dalai Lama

#7. Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

John Yoo

#8. Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.

Snoop Dogg

#9. I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark

Bennett Madison

#10. The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.

Judith Rich Harris

#11. Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

Gideon Raff

#13. The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

Bo Gritz

#14. All the POWs worked hard for their captors, the North Koreans. We had been told that if we worked hard, we would be treated fairly. Instead, we were exploited.

Young-Bok Yoo

#15. I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

#16. It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.

Wilfred Burchett

#17. Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Kay Warren

#18. Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.

Bo Gritz

#19. And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Antonio Porchia

#20. I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

NeNe Leakes

#21. During the really tough first couple of years in prison, I felt like the 23rd Psalm was dictated by the Lord specifically for POWs.

Leo Thorsness

#22. Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

Maggie Scarf

#23. In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.

Annie Jacobsen

#24. American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

Dana Rohrabacher

#25. The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

Aleksis Kivi

#26. You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Marian Wright Edelman

#27. I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

Bo Gritz

#28. Japan had held 132,134 western POWs and 35,756 of them died in detention, a death rate of 27 percent. In contrast, only 4 percent of the POWs held by the Germans and Italians died.

James D. Bradley