Quotes

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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.

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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.

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.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.