A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect… — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
We think of our prison inmates as the dregs of society, and we scorn them and push them off to the side… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races,… — James Fox Copy Share Image
“Hang out in front of a school on a Friday after class has been dismissed. Some notion. I wonder if any inmates… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men. — Cammie McGovern Copy Share Image
I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me. — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Shouldn't one of the goals of prison be getting as many of the inmates as possible back out into the world to… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has… — George Jackson Copy Share Image
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment… We cannot ignore the fact that… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons,… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty… — George Ryan Copy Share Image