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.
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.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Man is condemned to be free.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
