I tattooed "survive" on my hand the night before I went away to prison. And I did. We do what we have to do to survive.
Levan Uchaneishvili - Uncle Nikolai

“Some men are destined never to leave Alcatraz... alive.”
Patrick McGoohan - Warden

“We are the last living survivors from our prison block. Besides me, you are the only person who could still recognize the man who killed our families.”

Martin Landau - Max Rosenbaum

“It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you.”

Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“Do you know what it's like to be the only kid in the first grade who got to talk about visiting day?”
Laura Linney - Kate Whitney