Jail Quotes - Page 10

• I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

  Cecily McMillan

  Islands, Wings, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."

  Trevor Noah

  Mean, Rocks, Faces

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.

  Adam Braver

  Thinking, Littles, Saws

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

  Jeff Ross

  Get Up, Good Things, Walks

  "Having Thick Skin Is A 'Survival Technique,' Says Comic Jeff Ross". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wkar.org. January 2, 2017.

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• Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for her, bottom was an automobile accident that almost landed her in jail.

  George Carlin

  Drinking, Coke, Firsts

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

  Charles Schumer

  Thinking, Years, Drug

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• It is hard to stay patient about policy matters where everybody agrees about what needs to be done and then it just doesn't happen, like reforming the immigration system and getting rid of family immigration jails and closing Guantanamo and criminal-justice reform. All these issues, there is basically consensus. There's no rational objections whatsoever, but it can't happen because of other stupid steps we have to take in politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Stupid, Issues, Justice

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison on any given day, but also all those who are in jail, on probation or parole, as well as all those who are just months away from being locked up again because they are unable to find work or housing due to their criminal record.

  Michelle Alexander

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Army, Compassion

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, People, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous states now have some type of mandatory sentencing for this offense - typically two days in jail for a first offense and two to ten days for a second offense. Possession of a tiny amount of crack cocaine, on the other hand, was given a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mother, Hands, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination against people released from prison - discrimination that denies them basic human rights to work, shelter and food.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Rights, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 90% of the people that rap are just rappers, they rap what they see, a lot of them exploit other peoples lives, I've been through it all, I don't glorify it cos when I was in jail, I wasn't like YES I'm in jail now I can say that in my rap.

  Cormega

  Rap, People, Glorify

  Source: fatlacemagazine.com

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• There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as he got out of jail. That's a third world reaction and they understand it. Cuba played an enormous role in the liberation of Africa and the overthrow of Apartheid, sending doctors and teachers to the poorest places in the world, to Haiti, to Pakistan after the earthquake, almost everywhere. The internationalism is just astonishing. I don't think there has been anything like it in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• I am surprised that many people disregard the fact that the end for almost all drug dealers ends up being the cemetery or the jail cell, we do not know of any case where a drug dealer has "retired"

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Cells, People, Drug

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man.

  Gucci Mane

  Men, Like You, Feels

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever.

  Willie Nelson

  Mother, Get Well, Stress

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Issues

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].

  Jerry Brown

  Climate Action, California, Hoaxes

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

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• We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy. There has got to be much more collaboration between the two movements and a greater appreciation for the work of the advocates in each community. It's got to be a movement that's about education, not incarceration - about jobs, not jails.

  Michelle Alexander

  Appreciation, Jobs, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.

  Michelle Alexander

  Years, Prison Population, Thirty

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

  Charles Schumer

  Thinking, Years, Support

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• Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

  Jesse Jackson

  Basketball, Zero, School

  Source: www.colorlines.com

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• I'm thinking of love in action and not something where you say, "Love your enemies," and just leave it at that, but you love your enemies to the point that you're willing to sit-in at a lunch counter in order to help them find themselves. You're willing to go to jail.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love You, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When the family came out, that made me cry, and the reason I had a hard time leaving Grant Park was that to see a million people like that, feeling the way that million people felt, was so exhilarating.

  Bill Ayers

  Hard Times, Years, People

  Source: thepointmag.com

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