Prison Quotes

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Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see?… — Bill Hicks
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins,… — Clara Barton
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think… — Kenny Smith
This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up… — Coolio
Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun. I would love to speak bluntly to those… — David Berkowitz
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four… — James Q. Wilson
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. — Robin Hobb
Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons — Chris Crass
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted… — Russell Hoban
It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to… — Sherman Alexie
I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others.… — Corrie Ten Boom
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however,… — Chris Hedges
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison. — Eazy-E
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison. — Nawal El Saadawi
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
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In… — Nancy Pelosi
There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging… — Mark Steyn
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people… — Sam Lipsyte

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