For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“She had spent the last six months of her senior year counting down the days, literally wrote the number on a jotter… — Susan May Copy Share Image
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter’s office, he’d felt a… — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“Smith shrugged and came over to Cella and Crush. Another shifter, a black bear, waited to lead them out, the security cameras… — Shelly Laurenston Copy Share Image
Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“I got out late winter. I was off on the exact day by thirty-some hours, which is not bad calculations. I made… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
During the Boom Years, it was so easy to lose sight of basic values. For example, there was lots of nonsense said… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I have always thought limousines make me dreadfully uncomfortable, just the way that suits do. When I wear a suit, I feel… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Howard Marks is very intelligent and well read, eloquent, witty, charming. I think it was those qualities that got him through. I… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I learned that the way governors projected the numbers of beds they'd need for prison facilities was by examining the reading scores… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf.… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi... shortly after he was released from… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Sentencing enhancements won't get police to investigate crimes they don't take seriously to begin with. They won't stop police from harassing trans… — Kay Whitlock Copy Share Image
When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
