I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel… — James Fox Copy Share Image
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A lot of people say, 'Well, I'm just not political.' And I think: Do you have a bank account? You're political. Not… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
We keep a woman in prison for decade after decade at a cost of $60,000 a year, and then give them $200… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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