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807To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. Jack Henry Abbott- 0 0 •
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879There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. Jack Henry Abbott
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771The 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. Jack Henry Abbott
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649Paranoia 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. Jack Henry Abbott
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650One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. Jack Henry Abbott
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669I'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. Jack Henry Abbott
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614The 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. Jack Henry Abbott
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603That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. Jack Henry Abbott
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642Imagine 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. Jack Henry Abbott
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718I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott
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716Because 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. Jack Henry Abbott
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767The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. Grace Abbott
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780The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school. Grace Abbott
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703Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. Grace Abbott
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719I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic. Grace Abbott
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