Jordi Cuixart Quotes

Our time has come in this country to go to prison. We'll go to prison, we'll die, but tomorrow our children must be free.

The way to reform has always led through prison.

There is not a single man in prison today who does not claim to be an ardent patriot

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I should still be in jail.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Better to starve fighting than to starve working.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

Prisons are universities of the opposition.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted; and by which, during that term, a portion of the prison employment shall be for, and the product thereof be faithfully paid over to, the support of the criminal’s family; and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

We spend $94,000 per prisoner [per year]. There is a tension between punishment and making people’s lives better and I don’t actually think that we have done the second part well. We put people in prison and expect them to come out

Every first year law student learns that sentencing has four goals: retribution, incapicitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation.

The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight.

I don't ever want to go back to prison.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.