By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
No man should be judge in his own case.
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.
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Man is condemned to be free.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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.
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.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
