“My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.”
Ricky Gervais
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I don’t want to release the prisoners—I want to lease them. If they’re not going to work, they might as well not work for me.”
Jarod Kintz
This Book is Not for Sale
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)”
Nelson Mandela
“One of man's greatest flaws is that he thinks far too highly of what he does.”
Tim Campbell
“When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.”
Samuel Beckett
Molloy
“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.”
Darnell Lamont Walker