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Prisoners Quotes
If theyre in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - theyre murderers, theyre terrorists, theyre insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here were so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. - James Inhofe Quotes
If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them. - Robin Hayes Quotes
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but its mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. - Polly Toynbee Quotes
Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers. - Lord Caradon Quotes
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. - King Hussein I Quotes
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. - John Yoo Quotes
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. - Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes
The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. - Edwin M Stanton Quotes
Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. - Tom Mcclintock Quotes
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. - John Yoo Quotes
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. - Roland Joffe Quotes
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. - Corazon Aquino Quotes
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. - Simone Weil Quotes
When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. - Janet Flanner Quotes
Only a free West can help the prisoners of todays left- and right-wing dictatorships. - Barbara Amiel Quotes
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time. - Mel Carnahan Quotes
The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. - Janis Karpinski Quotes
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ ones mind. After several months confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. - Nellie Bly Quotes
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson Mandela Quotes
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. - Joanna Lumley Quotes
There simply seems to be no clear plan for terrorist prisoners for their eventual disposition - trial, incarceration, death, or release. - Charles Foster Bass Quotes
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. - William C Bryant Quotes
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? - Arundhati Roy Quotes
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bushs 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. - John Yoo Quotes
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. - Michael Badnarik Quotes
Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control. - Janis Karpinski Quotes
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. - Tom Mcclintock Quotes
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. - Danny Glover Quotes
And dont forget, a prisoners wife must always think good thoughts. - Nazim Hikmet Quotes
I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons. - James Inhofe Quotes
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