Difficult Quote by Jack Abramoff

Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now…

— Lani Guinier

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a…

— Michelle Alexander

Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent…

— Jack Abramoff

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your…

— Lord Byron

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve…

— Michelle Alexander

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very…

— William Hazlitt

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless…

— Karl Marx

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this…

— Anonymous

I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

— Louisa May Alcott

In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other…

— Donna J. Haraway

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police,…

— Jeff Cooper

Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in…

— Jefferson Davis