Incarceration Quotes

37 quotes by 28 authors

Monastic incarceration is castration. — Victor Hugo
If we want to do more than just end mass incarcerationâ€”if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in Americaâ€”we… — Michelle Alexander
We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world,… — John Legend
It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population. — Hillary Clinton
The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the… — Bill Vaughan
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses. — Ric Keller
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. — George Soros
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal… — Richard Louv
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have… — Bryan Stevenson
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. — Paul Hawken
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration… — Al Sharpton
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. — Tommy Chong
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the… — Peter Kropotkin
She was there through my incarceration I wanna show the nation my appreciation. — Shaggy
Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: Black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black. — Michelle Alexander
Street life gave you that hustle to grind it out. Fake friends gave you eyes behind your back. Incarceration gave you the ability to be… — Gee Linder

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