Quotes

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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!

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.