In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Does Patch have a restraining order against him?' he read. 'Is Patch a felon?' 'Give-me-that!' I hissed furiously. Patch gave a soft… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Gator [ McKlusky from White Lightning] was a criminal and a felon, but he had a good heart - he's probably a… — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in… — Kathleen Brown Copy Share Image
We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns… — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a… — Drake Copy Share Image
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never… — William K. Black Copy Share Image
Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour? — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image