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“No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.”

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Italian author born on May 1, 1900, and died on August 22, 1978. Ignazio Silone is renowned for his profound political and social commentary, a significant figure in 20th-century Italian literature. more

“If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.”

People Ifs Men Humans Might Cities Crime Accounts Towns Institutions Prison Equipment Equations

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.”

Men Should Difficult Opinion Kindness Justify Discomfort Adversaries Humiliating Implied

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”

Feels Firsts I Can Facts Wanted Careers Havens Right Now First Time Deny Like Me Orthodox Oscars Academy Awards

Author:Sally Field

“A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.”

Humans Crosses Prison Sections Strain

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.”

Ifs Men Doe Progress Men And Women Institutions Prison Improvement Covered Unfortunate Rehabilitation Erring Progress Of Society Reclamation

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.”

Should Humans Institutions Prison

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.”

People Knows Littles Concerned Prison Treated Prisoner General Public

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.”

Believe Humans War Problem Spiritual Process Race Materials Guilty Peaceful Human Race Persuasion Riot Bloodshed Inference

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.”

Men Believe Order Prison Stealing

Author:Eugene V. Debs

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