Quotes

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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 try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Justice renders to every one his due.