Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
I know prisons from the inside.
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.
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