Quotes

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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.

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%.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

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.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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?

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 don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.