Prisons Quotes

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Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one… — Victoria Woodhull
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our… — Victoria Woodhull
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea… — Jean Giono
Prisons are the universities of the opposition. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke
It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that… — Majora Carter
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city… — Michelle Alexander
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
Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities. — Jamie Fellner
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there. — Lysa TerKeurst
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization. — Jacque Fresco
In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should… — Bill Maher
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,… — Ludwig von Mises
Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over… — Vicki Robin
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles… — Jeff Cooper
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… — Angela Davis
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your… — Ram Dass
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,… — George Orwell
This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our… — Naomi Klein
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

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