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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst

Birthname

AKA Emmeline Pankhurst

Political Parties Women's Party, Conservative Party

Nationality United Kingdom

Occupations Feminist, Suffragette

Spouse Richard Pankhurst

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One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

— Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story

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Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in. Soon I found myself sickening for fresh air. My head began to ache. Sleep fled. I lay all night suffering with cold, gasping for air, aching with fatigue, and painfully wide awake.

— Emmeline Pankhurst, via books.google.com

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.

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Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.

— Norman Parker, via www.goodreads.com

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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

— Oscar Wilde, The Coming Nation

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I was given a cell occupied by five other men. It was infested with vermin, and sewer rates scurried back and further over the floors of that human cesspool in such numbers that it was almost impossible for me to place my feet on the stone floor. Those rats were nearly as big as cats, and vicious.

— Eugene V. Debs, Seeds Of Revolution

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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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It taught me among other things the relativity of freedom. Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom.’

— Arthur Koestler, The Paris Review

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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, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

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They stripped us naked and chained us up to a door, and then turned the fire hose on us until we were black and blue and half blind.

— Carl Panzram, via www-rohan.sdsu.edu

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And guys in here go through tremendous struggles inwardly. A lot of them, you know, play the macho role and keep things inside. But I know a lot of guys who cry on their pillow at night.

— David Berkowitz, via transcripts.cnn.com

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I'll never survive in prison! They'll mop the floor with me!

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Rehabilitation is a fairy tale.

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Life in prison was hell

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Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

— Bernard Kerick,

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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available to an average citizen in America right now.

— Merle Haggard, Attention Deficit Democracy

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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

— Jack Henry Abbott, via books.google.com

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I spent my twenties in a drug-infested den of crime and inequity: Yale University. I saw more drugs being done in more ways, off of more surfaces, by more kinds of people than I ever saw in any black community. Well, the cops never kicked in the doors. The police never showed up.

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Arrest is an instantaneous, shattering thrust, expulsion, somersault from one state into another.

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If a person who stutters goes to prison... Do they finish their sentence?

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Yes, there were several times that at the beginning, when I first came to prison, I was very suicidal. And I saw no hope in living. I was disgusted with my life. I was angry at a lot of people. I felt betrayed, confused, and I saw no hope. So there were some times when I did try to commit suicide.

— David Berkowitz, via transcripts.cnn.com

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We are still the wildest people we’ve ever known that aren’t in prison.

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After my wife died, I haven't been able to look at other women for 10 years... But now that I'm out of prison I can honestly say that it was worth it.

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One of the most wonderful things in life is to wake up and enjoy a cuddle with somebody... Unless you’re in prison

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If the purpose of imprisonment were to socialize men to become as violent as possible -- both while they are there and after they return to the community -- we could hardly find a more effective way to accomplish it.

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You did 20 years because you stole half a million dollars from Sully. The only place you were safe was in prison, where you ratted out his whole family.

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Even when they unlock the door to this prison, we are still prisoners.

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You do what you want. I ain't going back to prison for your or anybody.

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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruelest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

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

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If you ever find yourself in prison, don't drop the soap. It's full of criminals and you may not get it back.

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What do you call a midget psychic who just escaped from prison? A small medium at large.

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The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners. Think about that.

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