I think that there are times when Puertoricans think, "Oh, we are blessed with the relationship with the U.S." But the end… — Oscar Lopez Rivera Copy Share Image
“No matter how well meaning and astute the investigators are or how well-researched, witnessed and documented the incidents of cruelty are, a… — Gayle K. Horii Copy Share Image
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Yes, they manage to sound very reasonable to themselves as they talk of deterring others from crime; but the act of putting… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“The hours I would spend in the prison visiting room were among the most comforting of my life. They sped by, the… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
In prison, the gloves were off, the comforting rhetoric and rationalization were absent. To use a phrase from Plato, I saw the… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft"… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made,… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Sammy could not have known that one day he would come to regard all the things that their loving each other had… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving… — Sting Copy Share Image
There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, 'Bro, get me out of here.' There's… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
When I went through what I was going through in prison, one of the things that was very distracting was the issue… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
I love to eat. That's why I got so fat; I love to eat. If I don't walk away from a meal… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
A lot of people say, 'Well, I'm just not political.' And I think: Do you have a bank account? You're political. Not… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
“But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never… — James Fox Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
You have Hillary Clinton who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who's openly racist. We… — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
“It was that time every afternoon when prisoners were released from their cells for an hour and allowed to walk around the… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“They dream of the happiness of stretching out one's legs and of the relief one feels after going to the toilet. In… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Jesus tells us what the 'protocol' is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in chapter 25… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you… — Junauda Petrus Copy Share Image
