Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
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.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
I never told a victim story about my
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.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
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.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
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.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
