Jail Quotes - Page 21

• You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking, People, Pockets

  "Justice Department's New Get-Tough Policy Is, Well, Not". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 20, 2013.

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• 'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Facts, Criminals

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Swings, Doors

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Artist, Oxygen

  "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

  Mike Singletary

  Jobs, Growing Up, Dad

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• Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hate, Ideas, Paris

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• Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.

  Pat Robertson

  Law, People, Criminals

  "Former Carter Staffer Attacks Pat Robertson for His Stance on Pot, Over-Incarceration". reason.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

  Tyler Perry

  Alive, Statistics, Supposed To Be

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• I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

  Jesse Ventura

  One Day, Cuffs, Crime

  "Body slam" by Paul Gray, www.cnn.com. November 9, 1998.

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• We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Memorial, Luther

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• You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Lovely, Trying

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• Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump`s comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.

  Chuck Todd

  Majority Leader, Jail Time, Flags

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, Cities

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.258, Broadway Books

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• In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Book, Way

  Interview With Javed Soomro, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.

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• Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Difficult, Graveyard

  Interview With Javed Soomro, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.

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• White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.

  Malcolm X

  White, People, Way

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

  Malcolm X

  Be Kind, Patient, Type

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called "negro cause," the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, "Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?" If that white man told me, "Yes," I'd shake his hand.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, White Man

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Government, Water

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Max, Courageous

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

  Nolan Bushnell

  School, College, Chuck E Cheese

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• When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, People, Disappear

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.457, Jaico Publishing House

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• We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, People, African American

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• Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

  Colin Quinn

  Hangover, Wake Up, Terrible

  "Colin Quinn Irish Comic Standing". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• When you screw up, you got to pay the price. Shoot up a supermarket, you go to jail. Ride a motorcycle without a helmet, permanent brain damage and in California you're getting a ticket. Too chatty on a date with my dad, well, he'll push you in front of a cross town bus. Of course, you know, I'm speaking metaphorically. My dad will push you in front of any bus.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Pay The Price, California

  "Titus / Three Strikes". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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