Jails Quotes

52 quotes by 45 authors

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be… — Arianna Huffington
We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went,… — Martin Luther
The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our… — Robert Kennedy
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those… — Van Jones
Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is… — Jane Addams
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
For digital natives, public schools are jails — Bing Gordon
Is all the world jails and churches? — Zack de la Rocha
I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for… — Richard Wurmbrand
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy… — Rodney S. Quinn
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a… — Smokey Robinson
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control â€” in prison or jail, on probation or parole â€” than were enslaved in 1850, a decade… — Michelle Alexander
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed. — Charles Bukowski
Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them… — Richard Wurmbrand
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into… — Billy Sunday
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is… — Pete Earley
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain… — Barbara Deming

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