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Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things. It is an outrage that there is an attitude that this is normal. This is not normal. We can't shrug our shoulders and say this is just a 'fact of life' in remote Australia.

We cannot let it be said of modern Australia that the colour of your skin determines whether or not you end up in jail.

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

I grew up with my moms and pops. Pops was in jail for, like, three years.

If I was president, you wouldn't be sitting in jail for crimes that's not violent; you wouldn't be doing too much time for crime that's not violent.

White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life.

It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.

Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.

I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.

If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

I would love to have Mystikal on Strange Music when he gets outta jail.

We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'

See, Indira Gandhi was wrong in declaring the Emergency. She tried to put me in jail, but she could not. People voted her back, and I worked with her after that. Even though I was not a member of the Congress, she sought my help on China. You can't have personal vendetta, you see.

Just because we make a lot of money we're supposed to be the bigger person? Fans tell us that our kids are ugly and that they should have thrown our mothers in jail for having us. That's not disrespectful?