If you want total security, go to
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
Since 1957, black people have
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.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
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.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
It was only when I lay there on the
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
When you are younger you get blamed for
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
