On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Bengt didn’t budge. “Talk to me, damn it.” “Let go!” “And where are you planning to go, Alex?” “Away!” “You can’t get… — G.B. Gordon Copy Share Image
The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I know that we've had a lot of immigration. How many immigrants are in prison? And what I found was - and… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think the American people said, look, you know, we can't control what every government does to its people, but we shouldn't… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
“Prison left me with some strange little tics.' She has taken all the door off their hinges in all the apartments she… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
“The law was applied in accordance to social structure. A dope using poor man was bound for prison. A wealthy farm boy… — R.E. Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
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
One of the things that made me long to be back in prison was that I had so little opportunity for reading,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I just might kill someone in my next job, and I'll be honest here, I couldn't do the time. Really. No way.… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
“When the prison gates slam behind an inmate, he does not lose his human quality; his mind does not become closed to… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
“When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image