“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.” SaidStatesRunningEarthHumanityChristPayBrainPlanetsBuddhismPoliticianNormalPoliceStructurePrisonLocalsInsaneCampsPlanet EarthOrganizationalGestapoOrganizational Structure Author:Frederick Lenz
“What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.” PeopleIfsWritingReasonFactsUseCoursesBloodCryNormalPrisonIllPrisonerAutonomyFrustratingInkRestrictionMentally Ill Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty
“Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.” IfsHelpingFeelingsDreamLostProcessDifficultRiskRegretNormalPrisonMourningTemporaryLost DreamsUnrealized Dreams Book:How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns Source: How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns
“Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.” YearsHas BeensReasonShowsPastUsedPracticeViolenceProtectNormalPrisonSomething NewSolitaryParts Of LifeProtect YouConfinementSolitary Confinement Author:Wilbert Rideau
“In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives. It is viewed as "normal" in ghetto communities to go to prison or jail.” MenAgeCommunityRecordsSubjectsNormalAreasMajorityPrisonCriminalsDiscriminationAfrican AmericanJailUrbanGhettoUrban Areas Author:Michelle Alexander
“Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are denied the right to vote in 48 states, and while we accept that as normal in the United States, in other western democracies people in prison do have the right to vote.” PeopleMenStatesBlackUnitedAcceptingMillionsUnited StatesDemocracyNormalHighestVotePrisonWesternRateConvictionDuesDeniedRight To VoteFelony Author:Michelle Alexander
“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.” PeopleHomeGroupsNormalInstitutionsPrisonCuresParanormalJailGraduatesLocksSchoolmates Author:Scott Westerfeld