We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived… — Irene S. Levine Copy Share Image
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I spent a night in jail but honestly who could have known it's illegal to pee from a hotel balcony into the… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
“Slade placed his pistol on the table next to his chair. "Sid down, Doll. This might take awhile," he said, as he… — Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote Copy Share Image
The murder of Robert Krentz - whose family had been ranching in Arizona since 1907 - by illegal alien drug dealers was… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
I grew up knowing about [Ted] Bundy because I grew up in Aspen and that is one of the places he kept… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We have to convince people that they have the power to elect people. The people they are electing are the ones making… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
“It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benefits… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I trained in Provincetown, Mass. Back then, they didn't have all the tourists on Cape Cod. Very isolated. Very good spot. I… — Marvin Hagler Copy Share Image
“... That's why you're going directly back to the house. The last thing we need is for you to end up in… — Jen Turano Copy Share Image
My real issue is that the woman [Hillary Clinton] exposed thousands and thousands of classified documents, which, if I exposed one of… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended!… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“ended up doing time in jail for assaulting the object of her affection’s fiancée. Her defense was that she was trying to… — Genevieve Woods Copy Share Image
I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to… — Foxy Brown Copy Share Image
That's my life. But I don't glorify violence, and I hate jail. The rap game saved me, man: I've got three children,… — Black Rob Copy Share Image
Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York… — Michael Davis Copy Share Image
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
“Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've gotta head back to work… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If you put something together and it doesn't look so good, the fashion police are not going to come and take you… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image