We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
I never told a victim story about my
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
