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.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
To try to raise a son from inside the
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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.
