Civil rights Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.”

— Steven Magee

“It's easy to have high morals when you'd be safe naked in the middle of San Quentin Prison.”

— Ed Williams

No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't…

— Larry Wilmore

“He's like a little boy again now for the first time in years because he's like let out of school, no job, the bills…

— Jack Kerouac

“Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there.”

— Joe Hill

When I first shook Stanley Williams' hand, I knew that he was innocent and that we'd be connected until he was either executed or…

— Jamie Foxx

As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer…

— Jeanne Woodford

“There was a great joke that was forever doing the rounds in the jail and it was probably funny not because it had a…

— H.M. Forester

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

“He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within…

— Lewis E. Lawes

“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he…

— Thomas Bernhard

“inside this prison he lived in freedom”

— René Barjavel