"To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Jail Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.”
“Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.”
“Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'”
“Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage â€“ all red, smiling from ear to ear. So I donâ€™t want to mess up, [be]cause sheâ€™s smiling. Seeing my mom happy is kind of like an overwhelming feeling.”
“We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.”

Source : "Ashcroft, senators offer plans to investigate FBI" by From Terry Freiden, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2001.
“I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.”
“Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.”
“The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.”

Source : George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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