Quotes About Injustice

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Prison killed me. It destroyed me.

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

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

In prison, you're issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you're issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them.

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

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.

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

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.

I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other people do. They're just as nice.

Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was making sure they wouldn't be able to keep me there.

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison every day.

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.