Quotes

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

No man should be judge in his own case.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

While crime is punished it yet increases.