Jails Quotes

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Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm… — Joe Arpaio
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions — Hillary Clinton
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the… — Milton Friedman
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands… — Khalil Gibran
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous… — Angela Davis
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the… — Horace Mann
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in… — Ralph Nader
If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. — Mike Singletary
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly… — Billy Sunday
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have… — Yulia Tymoshenko
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called… — John Updike
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. Theyâ€™re operated as holding pensâ€”miniature… — Barack Obama
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how… — Nelson Mandela
We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people… — Charles Bukowski
I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against… — Scott Westerfeld
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… — Howard Zinn
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not… — Christopher Hitchens
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them;… — Thomas Paine

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