A smile costs nothing, but creates much, It happens in a flash, but the memory of it lasts forever, It cannot be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The camp lived up to expectations as warmly dressed guards forced them to undress outside the gate where they searched them for… — George Levy Copy Share Image
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Deputy sheriffs had always held the power in the jails. They controlled the culture of the place. if they didn't like you… — Sunny Schwartz Copy Share Image
Across the nation, there are thousands of individuals serving life or life-equivalent sentences for crimes they committed as children. This means they… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The concept behind prison is to keep the criminal away from society and—at least in an ideal world—to give him time to… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
There is only one way out of the trap: that you don't choose; neither this nor that - you simply don't choose.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
“All he had to contend with now were his memories, which weren’t pretty. In prison, he’d managed to stave them off with… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing,… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“I just want to say, for the record, as far as Royal protectors go, you're not very good." "It's my first day,"… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“In jail you learn that there are two kinds of guys in this world - and I don't care if they're human… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You plead guilty you get 20 years, you plead guilty you get 15 years. That's the lowest time I heard and I… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
“I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I haven't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
