Prisons Quotes

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If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either.… — Michelle Alexander
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beingsâ€¦ — Angela Davis
I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in… — Miriam Makeba
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
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. — Robin Hobb
We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons — Chris Crass
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
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
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
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
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
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than… — Aldous Huxley
There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons. — Benjamin Franklin
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous. — Natalie Merchant
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress… — Pranab Mukherjee
The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we… — Elizabeth Strout
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are… — Frederick Lenz
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have… — Criss Jami

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