It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
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?
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
America is the land of the second chance
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.
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.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
