If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
I submit that an individual who breaks a
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
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.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Prison continues, on those who are
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
