I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose, — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?” — Ruthy Alon Copy Share Image
Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering. — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem. — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people. — David Steward Copy Share Image
“You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition… — Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director… — Odilo Globocnik Copy Share Image
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Once the criminal has served his time, he returns to his old neighborhood. There’s a good chance he’s been psychologically damaged by… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The mythology around colorblindness leads people to imagine that if poor kids of color are failing or getting locked up in large… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
