Quotes

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

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

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

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

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.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

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

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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

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.

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.

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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.

No man should be judge in his own case.