In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“In my view, it is an error to think about 'alternatives to prison' if what we mean by that is 'electronic bracelets,'… — Karlene Faith Copy Share Image
“Provisions for martial law and the institutions to implement a military dictatorship inside the U.S. affect all facets of our society. No… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
One of my priorities is giving victims the right to choose different paths to restoration and to healing. It's prioritizing having restitution… — Chesa Boudin 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
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores… — Barack Obama 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
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“He wants to tell her that he is not hopeless, that he is not filled with hatred or violence, that he is… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation… — David Von Drehle 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
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I was not aware of a ton of the stuff that was being said about me out in the world since I… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Matthias was in the dark. And it wasn’t the kind of dark that came with a room that didn’t have any lights… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
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