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Letter "I" » imprisonment
«Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity»
Author: Father James Keller
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«When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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«Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
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Imprisonment
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capital punishment, dungeon, dungeons, imprisonment, murderer
«An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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«Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.»
«Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Imprisonment
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culprit, culprits, defending, hired, imprisonment, pillory, pulpit, pulpits
«What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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bondage, Death itself, famine, imprisonment, incomprehensible, inflict, one hour, striped, stripes, toil, vindication
«The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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ache, imprisonment, loathed, penury, weariest, worldly
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