
“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
About Tolerance (1977)
“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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.”
“If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.”
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.”
“Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.”
Nada no es solamente nada. Es también nuestra cárcel.
Voces (1943)
Source: If They Come in The Morning (1971), Chapter 2, "Lessons: From Attica to Soledad"
Refusing to bargain for freedom after 21 years in prison, as quoted in TIME (25 February 1985)
1980s