Quotes About Struggle

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

After five years in prison, five years on parole, and a total of 10 years of being in hell, I can look back on it all and say I played in four NFL games. It's incredible.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

After I won but then lost my world title I ended up with no money. Then my dad died in prison.

Granddad was deported to a Siberian prison camp at the age of 15.

My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India's independence, which included spending four years in prison in Mahatma Gandhi's movement. I still remember the conversations we had together, many of them while playing chess.