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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals,… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
We don't want to hurt anybody, kill anybody, build any prisons, or build police. We want to make it unnecessary for people… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end. I observed that while Dumas… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Many times, I left the prison thinking, 'I'm smart. I can make it. I won't get caught up again.' But you get… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
So,” Royce said, “you want us to escape from this prison, kidnap the king, cross the countryside with him in tow while… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I put my mum through a lot of stress; police would be coming to the house... It just seemed normal to me,… — J Hus Copy Share Image
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“Just as a star suddenly flares to a hundred times its previous brightness -- and then fades away, so, too, a human… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
“THE CURSE May they never Return home at night... May you have no part of eventide, May you have no room of… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
![“I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his company. Most prisoners who come home face really significant challenges when it comes to finding work. It’s very, very hard for most people who have a criminal record to get a job. I…” quote by Piper Kerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/piper-kerman-8613_back-to-work_i-went-back-to-work-right-away-after-pri_2503972.jpg)
