Prisoner Quotes

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them but do not make them any more than a prisoner makes a prison.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

In my business, you can't trust anyone because you don't know who is your friend. Becoming successful means, you become a prisoner.