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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Criss Jami
    “The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: being-heard, compassion, countries, ignorance, inmates, jail, leaders, nation, passion, politicians, prison, voice-of-the-nations
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    Frazier Glenn Miller
    “I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.”
    ― Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., A White Man Speaks Out
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    Mumia Abu-Jamal
    “Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.”
    ― Mumia Abu-Jamal
    tags: cages, oppression, prison
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
    tags: freedom, life, prison
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    Jan Valtin
    “Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”
    ― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
    tags: human-spirit, prison
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    Darnell Lamont Walker
    “the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.”
    ― Darnell Lamont Walker
    tags: black-man, prison
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    Edward Humes
    “It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.”
    ― Edward Humes, No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
    tags: crime, prison
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    Nelson Mandela
    “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: prison
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    “Prison is like high school with knives.”
    ― Raegan Butcher
    tags: prison, prisoners
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty”
    ― Ben Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, prison, secure
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    Simone Weil
    “A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
    ― Simone Weil
    tags: language, prison
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    “THE CURSE

    May they never
    Return home at night...

    May you have no part of eventide,
    May you have no room of your own,
    Nor road, nor return.
    May your days be all exactly the same,
    Five Fridays in a row,
    Always an unlucky Tuesday,
    No Sunday,
    May you have no more little worries,
    Tears or inspiration,
    For you yourself are the greatest worry on earth:

    Prisoner!”
    ― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
    tags: curse, malediction, prison, prisoner
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    “IN OUR CELLS

    They keep us in our cells
    For a long time...

    And, if we get out,
    We lug them with us on our shoulders,
    Like a porter with a chest of goods.”
    ― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
    tags: prison, prisoners
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    “Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

    (from "Gratitude")”
    ― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
    tags: gravestone, handcuffs, prison, prisoners
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  • #17
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarmé
    tags: books, reading
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
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    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    ― Margaret Fuller
    tags: read, reader, reading
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Emilie Buchwald
    “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
    ― Emilie Buchwald
    tags: children, parenting, reading
    677 likes

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    Rita Mae Brown
    “When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: libraries, reading
    487 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Malcolm X
    “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, inspirational, literacy, religious
    1208 likes

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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
    6464 likes

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  • #30
    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, reading, travel
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    John Waters
    “It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, reading
    818 likes



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