Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I think it's important to visit people in prison. And if you know anyone in prison, I would encourage you very much… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somebody goes to a soup kitchen and serves the hungry, someone goes to a prison and tries to get people to turn… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness.… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a… — Grizz Chapman Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
“Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time,… — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
“I came up with the idea when I was in prison,” Kyle said, in response to their question. “Four months behind bars… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If you've seen the 'Shawshank Redemption' and if you think Morgan Freeman's character should have died in prison, vote for the other… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
“Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Mr S. got angry. ‘Yes, I do have a son. He’s a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.’ I couldn’t ask which prison he… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair.… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I have to be that way in a courtroom. I typically have people's lives literally in my hands and they're relying on… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun. I would love to speak… — David Berkowitz Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
“But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it!… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image