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Tag Name "Prison" (1105)

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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
Victor Hugo
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A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.
Victoria Woodhull
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
Angela Davis
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Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
Angela Davis
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The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not con­ceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.
Angela Davis
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
Angela Davis
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
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Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
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One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, Bail him out, and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thi
Vince Staples
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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
Andy Rooney
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There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.
Michael Ondaatje
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
Christopher Lasch
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Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.
Rebecca Solnit
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Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
Jeremy Collier
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The guilty is he who meditates a crime the punishment is his who lays the plot.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
Chris Hedges
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It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.
Vladimir Lenin
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We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Vladimir Putin
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Our universities should produce good criticism they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.
Randall Jarrell
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Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.
Vladimir Putin
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We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
Jason Whitlock
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields
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The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.
Joyce Meyer
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The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.
Jean Harris
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