The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice.… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Every hardship is like being in prison. People feel imprisoned by ill-health, marital discord, financial insecurity, family disputes and other problems. To… — Babar Ahmad Copy Share Image
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, if the man who leaves the prison gates is just as likely or - as is sometimes grievously the case -… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today,… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
At the final day the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I realized that I had been living a great part of my life like an ostrich, with my head stuck in the… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn't realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear - they're using prison… — Da Brat Copy Share Image
Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products:… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“There are prisons made of iron. There are prisons made of velvet. Lucian’s house had no bars, only warmth, taste, money, and… — Valon G Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, as human beings, we're very, very alike and a lot more alike than we think, but we have a tendency to… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath.… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
I wanted to represent the brothas I have seen when I go to the rhythm section of Oakland, hearing brothas speak and… — Russell Hornsby Copy Share Image
It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
I believe prisons have emerged as a new frontline in the fight against crime. The fact is, new technology and sophisticated approaches… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…For me life without reading would be like being in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There were a lot of moments in my life where I could have died or I could have ended up serving 20… — IronE Singleton Copy Share Image
I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord… — Mehdi Dibaj Copy Share Image
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
