Quotes About Justice

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

I don't ever want to go back to prison.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.