We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour? — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns… — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never… — William K. Black Copy Share Image
In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Merely reducing prison terms does not have a major impact on the majority of people in the system. It is the badge… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Once a person is labeled a felon, he or she is ushered into a parallel universe in which discrimination, stigma, and exclusion… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated. — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
We need to make sure we're making a distinction between violent felons who are in this country illegally and children who were… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image