If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. — Mike Singletary Copy Share Image
A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I understood law enforcement in such a way that I was able to get a law enforcement officer, a veteran, to actually… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. — Barry Pepper Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Fuck you, angel. Fuck you and all God's little prison bitches. He slips you some cigarettes and a con job smile and… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system. — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have always believed prison can be very, very good for you but not by the act of deprivation of liberty alone.… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people.… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds 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
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
