There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, "Oh you went to… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem. — Said Seyam Copy Share Image
Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison. — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Health care is something that prisoners have a right to, you know? They don't get to pick and choose whether or not… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
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