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Eldridge Cleaver

"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all."

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Assegid Habtewold

"A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned - in the very same prison - by the employment contract that he has signed."

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"Suicides - you read of it-but you don't know the truth, if you were to see it you would go insane! Cut throats, cut wrists, hangings, suffocating, eyes bulging and tongues protruding, more shit. Suicides always shit themselves, did you know that! Life's final shit, the final act of madness; smell that you rats! Clean me up you pigs, zip me up in the bag you scum and get me out of here- Get me the fuck out of here-get me out!"

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"I got my lawyer to visit me in the jail. He couldn't believe the bruising over my body, so he pulled the governor and asked why I was covered in marks. The governor said to my lawyer that it was 'self-inflicted' and was caused by my 'running into walls'. That part was disproved because walls don't leave footprints all over your body."

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"I went through a period where I couldn't keep off the establishment's roofs, it was a serious urge I had. To look at a drainpipe and start shaking with excitement, nobody knows the feeling of hitting a prison roof, not unless you've done it. Let me tell you, it's like a lotto win - it's power. You're the governor; it's a kick in the teeth to the system."

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"Porkie and me came to some sort of agreement with the screw and the nurse, and after some haggling we gave ourselves up. After that, I never saw my friend Porkie again until we appeared at Edinburgh High Court, where we each got six years on top of our sentences for one night of madness. That just shows you how drugs can get a grip over your mind."

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"Prison madness is much the same! Insanity is plentiful in prisons. These days with the drug culture it's not a lot of difference, as a lot of convicts make themselves psychotic and paranoid. Many end up killers, all over petty and minor problems. Where men would once squabble, fight and kill over a ½ - oz of bacca they now do the same over a gram of white powder or a bag of brown!"

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"So what causes men to become violent? I'll tell you, boredom, silly rules, muggy screws and pathetic governors. What else can we do - swallow it, wipe our mouths out. You have to fight for your rights. Not sit back and take it."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!"

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Assegid Habtewold

"TC Campbell doesn't need any introduction, the man is a legend in the prison community and outside when this very strong-minded man was trying to prove his innocence for the six murders he had been convicted for. TC went on a fifty-day hunger strike, he ended up in hospital. This man was willing to die to prove his innocence, if he never done his famous hunger strike he probably would have never go the MPS in government to sit up and take note."

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"I dived out of the office and I was gone - hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn't Born Free, it was RUN FREE!"

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Eldridge Cleaver
"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."

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Eldridge Cleaver
"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all."

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Eldridge Cleaver
"All the gods are dead except the god of war."

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"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem."

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Eldridge Cleaver
"Too much agreement kills a chat."

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Eldridge Cleaver
"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

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Eldridge Cleaver
"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

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"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood."

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Eldridge Cleaver
"I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die."

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Eldridge Cleaver
"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."

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