Isaac Wright Jr.

“I was walking down First Avenue, heading to CVS. And two police cars pulled over and stopped, and rolled down the window and one of them asked, 'Are you Isaac Wright?' When I said yes, they immediately got out and asked me to take pictures with them in front of the police car.”

“When slavery was over, those atrocities that were done by slave owners was passed over to law enforcement, and law enforcement took up that task.”

“Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was making sure they wouldn't be able to keep me there.”

“I had to do four years of undergraduate. I went to Thomas Edison State University in Trenton.”

“From the day I got out, it was an evolutionary process. I was sick for, like, two years - that's the best way I can describe what was happening with me. But as time went by and I finished law school, it became clear to me that I needed a platform.”

“My contract is directly with Sony. Everybody was very fair with me. I kept my movie rights. I only gave my rights to a TV series.”

“I'm speaking for everyone who has ever been incarcerated, especially those who are innocent or have been overly charged.”

“I'm a part of the system now and I am helping people within that system and, so, it would be hypocrisy to be part of a system that I don't believe in.”

“I am going to live and die in the trenches.”

“You know, one of the disappointments about - for me, personally about being released - is that I left thousands of people behind. Now that 'For Life' is here, and here for everyone, it gives me the ability to touch millions at the same time.”

“You can scream, you can holler, you can protest - which are all good things, because we have to be heard - but no real, significant changes occur without rolling up your sleeves and getting into a fight.”

“The biggest thing is separation from family. It's a huge burden to carry and destructive in a lot of ways.”

“I spent so much time fighting that I didn't take the time to reflect on what I was actually going through.”

“I went to law school for one reason and one reason only. To slay giants for a price. And if the giant is big enough and the cause is important enough, I'll do it for free, especially when it involves helping those who cannot help themselves.”

“Well, 50 was a made man before I met him. So that alone - you walk into a room, and there's an immediate respect.”

“That's the core of my makeup: to fight for what's right.”

“If I had a billion dollars, that's not going to keep me out of the courtroom.”

“In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.”

“I graduated from college in 2002, and then I went to law school at St. Thomas University in Miami in 2004.”

“It is the people who are running the system that's the problem, and if you deal with that aspect of the system, you will eventually get the system to work for you.”