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The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.
Peter Benenson
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Peter Benenson
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Lawyer
Born:
Jul 31
,
1921
Died:
Feb 25
,
2005
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom
You
Care
Prison
Security
Total
Given
Only
Fed
Go
Lacking
Clothed
Want
The Only Thing
Medical
Medical Care
Thing
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
School
Prison
He
Opens
Closes
Door
Who
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Nelson Mandela
Small Things
Simple
Walk
Prison
Control
Appreciates
Has-Been
Silent
Able
Small
Simple Act
Remain
Take
Been
Person
Shop
Going
Whenever
Being
After
Wants
Newspaper
Act
Speaking
Choosing
Things
Buying
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush
Life
Better
Path
Prison
Second Chance
Better Life
Lead
Open
America
Land
Should
Second
Chance
Gates
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
Will
Prison
Learns
Many
Lessons
Things
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
Eckhart Tolle
Love
Strange
Suffering
Humanity
People
Collective
Prison
Sense
Nothing
Security
Give
More
Know
Conceptual
Because
Prisons
False
False Sense
Than
Cells
Inflicted
Them
Strange Thing
Thing
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
Respect
Tyranny
Prison
Submission
Starvation
Unnecessary
Out
Insofar
Voluntary
Beyond
Opinion
Goes
Anything
Public
Should
Avoid
Public Opinion
Keep
Necessary
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Lion
Love
Great
Ignorance
People
Wake Up
Free
Power
Feeling
Prison
Trapped
Saw
Guilty
Rising
Small
Self
Had
He
Buddha
Roar
Like
Tide
Proud
Real
Wake
Up
Offered
Revolutionary
Real Power
Break
Much
Separate
Notions
Teachings
Helping
Helping People
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
Lil Wayne
Love
God
Me
Walls
Prison
Lock
Find
Spirit
Never
He
Make
Always
Been
Up
Jail
Confined
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Robert Anton Wilson
Prison
Increasingly
Security
Only
Huge
Intelligent
Maximum
Jail
Break
Plan
Planet
Choice
Resembles
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