Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and… — Joyce E Williams Copy Share Image
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's… — William Morris Copy Share Image
For example, if you are a blogger who wrote something about a local official and you're going to prison for that, you're… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations,… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not… — Viktor Suvorov Copy Share Image
I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“She had spent the last six months of her senior year counting down the days, literally wrote the number on a jotter… — Susan May Copy Share Image
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter’s office, he’d felt a… — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Smith shrugged and came over to Cella and Crush. Another shifter, a black bear, waited to lead them out, the security cameras… — Shelly Laurenston Copy Share Image
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Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect,… — William Carroll Copy Share Image
The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times.… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures.… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the… — Sting Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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