“There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a...” — Jack Henry Abbott Quote

“There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.”

“Imagine 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.”

“Because 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.”

“The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.”

“If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.”

“I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.”