Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.” — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down...or prisons self-imposed.” — Chriscinthia Blount Copy Share Image
Free yourself from the prisons of your past or you're going to serve the rest of your life in that miserable place. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I had spent three years in jails and prisons, and then all of a sudden I'm in Japan in this dojo. It… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“The cells smell is a great feature of French prisons. Ours in No.44 was one of those fine broad-shouldered up and coming… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“CRIMINOLOGY Every year, chemical pesticides kill no fewer than three million farmers. Every day, workplace accidents kill no fewer than ten thousand… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins 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
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
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