One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Finally, my watchers had to fess up. In embarrassed and genuinely polite tones, they said they had no other choice but to… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
“The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Two prisoners… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world,… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Guards punished anyone caught taking bones from the garbage by fastening the bone between his teeth, across his mouth, and then tying… — George Levy Copy Share Image
“But those right above or right below the sharp numerical threshold had virtually identical criminal histories and backgrounds. This one measly point,… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
You can't escape from a prison until you recognize you are in one. People who have chosen to live within the limits… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“The opposite of certainty in life is called freedom. If you want to be free, you must be willing to advance your… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“He was about to cross a point of no return. The place separating him from the imaginary line in the sand. The… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually,… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons… — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
Non-custodial sentences are certainly something to look at, more support in the community rather than within prisons is something we have to… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Ako nisam kriv, onda su pogriješili, zatvorili su nedužna čovjeka. Ako me puste, priznaće svoju grešku, a to nije ni lako ni… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
I'm the first artist of any kind, good or bad, that was ever prosecuted by the Federal Government. Thirdly, they used the… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the… — Achmat Dangor Copy Share Image
We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“He's like a little boy again now for the first time in years because he's like let out of school, no job,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have spent more than 20 years in prison, then on one night I decided to surrender by signing all the terms… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image