hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
“She didn’t want to admit to herself, let alone to the outside world, that she had been placed in a ghetto, just… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“He took it and without hesitation, fuck him, he went for more. “So, a man gets outta prison, he gets himself a… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley's group, the black shirts, they were banned in Britain in 1940. And Max Mosley's dad,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“There was a Japanese TV set in front of us. There were Japanese TV sets all over the prison. They were like… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or… — Sean Quinn Copy Share Image
We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Like the hostages, I can’t find any excuses for my jailers, even if some of them are rootless exiles. They change continuously… — Hanan Al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
When people are not in a prison cell they believe they are free and happy. That's not true. Because in Istanbul, the… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“A prison chaplain in the West of England confessed he had given up one prisoner as hopeless, so stubborn was he against… — Francis Gay Copy Share Image
What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a… — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
“To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
“Is it as bad out there as they say it is?” he asked. “From my six-inch window, it looks like we got… — Julie James Copy Share Image
I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Two weeks after the arrested I was on the phone with my wife and we said a prayer and I was crying… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex,… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American… — Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
