If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind

But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Bitterness is captivity.

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

If men and women are in chains, anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.