From the Million Man March to this day, the crime and murder rates have significantly decreased in the major cities of America,… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“What’s ensued is a battle over ethical conduct, artistic freedom, and censorship in which every side—the activist zealots who threatened violence, the… — Andrea K. Scott Copy Share Image
Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Local prosecutors must use the power and discretion afforded them to carry out sweeping reforms that will protect the public - especially… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking. — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Aren't all crimes, by definition, hate crimes? I mean, people don't rob banks because they love tellers.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products:… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Violence in nature is one thing, but among civilized mankind, what excuse is there?” — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment. — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
I spend my time on Crimewatch appealing for criminals on the run. Domestic violence is one of the few crimes I can… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on… — Fatou Bensouda Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'm just gonna kill you," says Mike, peeved at being predictable. "You ever think of that?" "No, Mike. Because if you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Oh, good grief," said Vimes. "Look, it's quite simple, man. I was expected to go "At last, alcohol!", and chugalug the lot… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced… — Ilan Pappe Copy Share Image
A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of… — Maud Younger Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
