Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

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

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

We think it's OK for us to have the world's largest prison population and for one racial group to be overrepresented therein.

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.

Four walls are three too many for a prison — you only need one for an execution

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

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

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Liberty for all; chains for none.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.