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
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
I didn't suffer for Jesus in prison. No! I was with Jesus and I experienced his very real presence, joy, and peace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Without [these] lights and [this] little throne our Lord cannot come out of His tabernacle. We give them to Him, and we… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he… — Rand Paul 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 always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself.” — Kerry Daynes Copy Share Image
“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image