I hope to see these gangsters acting like teachers: aka prison is not the end

When some think of gangsters

this is what comes to mind^^

and some people brush all people who are in prison as gangsters or good for nothing

there are numerous films of different than your average ending up in prison


so i decided to find a number of people who went to prison or spent time in a cell


mlk spent time in a cell evidence of his mug shot but that has not diminished who or what he was

mandela spent time in prison yet went on to become a leader of a nation

also socrates was in prison yet that series of events went to spur on a movement
as well as a recount of the ordeal called the apology

yes that is right for those christians out there jesus went to prison or a cell
yet that was not the end of him or his legacy

and for some not as famous people

and he published his memoirs on the topic

that is right one of the most famous philosophers sartre was a prisoner

then there is wittgenstein
some call the father of logic the philosophical slash numerical  kind
one of the most famous intellectuals
and often labelled genius
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
this is his fabled masterpiece and here is a link to an excerpt of his life
http://www.wittgen-cam.ac.uk/biogre6.html


sade marquis de sade
intresting fact the word sadistic is homage to him
some of you are like what homage is that
but on another note there is a film about him i will review soon called

Quills (2000) - IMDb

leon trotsky 

a leader of the communistic rebellion before stalin and his memoirs can say the rest

lastly we get to malcolm x which i will cover in the next installation

honorable mentions

rosa parks

the catalyst or the straw that broke the camels back 

of the bus boycott

huey p newton

founding member of the black panther party 

whilst in their struggle for liberation 

they concocted the most dangerous of schemes

providing free meals for the kids in their community

paraphrased from documents of the president hoover

muhammad ali 

world famous boxer went to prison for not wanting to go to war

stripped off his title and managed to win it back

prison was not the end of him

Gandhi

we kinda know about this guy

so prison is not the end 

you may follow up on these people and 

conclude the duration and varying entries into prison life

and that some of them  immediately died in prison 

but this post is more than for the would be gangsters

because i am not glorifying prison

but challenging the view of prison being the end

for if we take muhammad ali 

he lost his title that he fought for 

and going to prison was harder than losing your morals and yourself 

fighting an injust war

and for some people aka the prisoners of war like sartre 

wittgenstein and co 

they may have been thinking i am not going to leave this place

and at sometimes in western history it would of been weaker of you shying away from prison

than going to it 

like mlk and mandela

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison

then there is this prison 

nicknamed the evin university for its number of intellectuals

Martin you are the king jr

Mlk jr day is a day celebrated by many especially in america
but it was pointed out to me that only since the noughties has it been a recognised national holiday in all fifty american states

martin was branded many things in his day but what gets me is the way he is branded now
and what are people really celebrating when they celebrate mlk jr day

is it the case of appeasement a spin move on the side of pr
to promote what the system was once again and that history favors the victor
and the worrying thing is that without a civil rights movement
the same country that celebrates a holiday in his honour would of gladly carried on its racist oppressive ways

or is it the case of people celebrating that there are people who will stand up for what they believe in against all odds and adversities
and it gives hopes to others fighting other fights that even though now they may call you a trouble maker a conspiracy theorist and many other things
they may even set dogs on you and burn your house down
but through all that you may get to the mountain top
and see the promised land you are helping to pave the way for

or is it a celebration that we are being aware of history and will not be doomed to repeat it
and though through omission and misinformation about the transatlantic slave trade and its remnants there is at least one beacon you are aware of who fought back against injustice hatred and ignorance

which gets us to ponder as we go from this

would we do a martin luther king jr

and are there some causes still looking for a champion

because even though it is called martin luther king day
we know so many more names it could be called by and perhaps we all name it after different people

like malcolm x day or angela davis day or
huey newton day
rosa parks day
harriet tubman day
steve biko day