Quotes

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Vices are not crimes.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.