"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

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"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."

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"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

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"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."

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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."

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"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."

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"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."

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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."

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"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

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"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."

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