“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”
Malcolm X book The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.”
About Tolerance (1977)
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Swiss author and dramatist 1921–1990Related quotes
Ian Brady (1938–2017) British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders
Article, Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013, pp.1-4
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
“Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison.”
Catherine Fisher book Incarceron
Source: Incarceron
“…the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality”
Jean Paul Sartre book Saint Genet
(400).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
“If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 69
Context: If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error. If it has recognized the fact, even for the tenth of a second, and then quickly forgotten it in order to avoid suffering, it is living in falsehood. Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood. In them, intelligence is neither a good, nor even an asset. The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
“Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.”
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
“Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Nada no es solamente nada. Es también nuestra cárcel.
Voces (1943)
Angela Davis (1944) American political activist, scholar, and author
Source: If They Come in The Morning (1971), Chapter 2, "Lessons: From Attica to Soledad"
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Refusing to bargain for freedom after 21 years in prison, as quoted in TIME (25 February 1985)
1980s