Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Justice renders to every one his due.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
