The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

They will never count me among the broken men.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

Although motivation comes and goes, you can always rely on your will.

In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.