The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
See, Indira Gandhi was wrong in declaring the Emergency. She tried to put me in jail, but she could not. People voted… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We have a country where you have Hillary Clinton with her e-mails that nobody's ever seen where she deletes 33,000 e-mails, and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived… — Irene S. Levine Copy Share Image
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I spent a night in jail but honestly who could have known it's illegal to pee from a hotel balcony into the… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system.… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail...… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith.… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
“He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I… — Sanjay Dutt Copy Share Image
My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Carlos, on paper, and Carlos, the guy who was in jail, is known to be a cultivated guy, the guy who handles… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image