Quotes

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

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.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

We are prisoners of ideas.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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