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Jail Quotes
On time behind bars, its causes, and what comes after.
This collection includes both historic and personal reflections on jail, from a civil rights icon's imprisonment for peaceful protest to candid accounts of personal legal trouble. A couple of lines also touch on how normal political imprisonment shouldn't be treated. Continue with our Go collection.
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- Crow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
- Boldly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I caught my case and went to jail, I could have caught a gang of extra time.
- Monsters
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of prophets have gone to jail.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Holding people presumed to be innocent in jail pre-trial simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail extracts huge human and financial costs.
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