Parole Quotes

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Beer, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 8 May 1781)

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• The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Government, Judging, Criminals

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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• No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

  Daryl Gates

  Kings, Police, Done

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• I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Government, People, Giving

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• During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

  Daniel Boone

  Home, Giving, Purpose

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.12, Applewood Books

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• Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.

  T. D. Jakes

  Pain, Chance, Prison

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.

  Jeremy Scott

  Giving, Shining, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".

  Bobby Heenan

  Wrestling, Wwe, Ends

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• In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees, fines, and costs may be a condition of your probation or parole. To make matters worse, if you're one of the lucky few who actually manages to get a job following release from prison, up to 100% of your wages can be garnished to pay back all those fees, fines and court costs. One hundred percent.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Numbers, Pay

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.

  Eric Schlosser

  Marijuana, Psychosis, Years

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• Before you get married you should meet your fiance's parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.

  Phyllis Diller

  Parent, Married, Enough

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• Bob Riley, a kind soul who “treads lightly in this world,” is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

  Benjamin

  Years, Soul, World

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• For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status.

  Michelle Alexander

  Class, Two, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A good intention does not mean honor.
  [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Mean, Honor, Doe

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• Normal people terrify me, because they haven't had enough problems in their life to know how to handle problems when they come up. Something little happens and they snap. But being from a dysfunctional family means nothing rattles me. Hey once you've driven a drunken father to moms' parole hearing, what else is there?

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Father, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

  John Mortimer

  Marriage, Guilty, Pleading

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• Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Men, Use, Speech

  "Le Chapon et la Poularde (1763)". Dialogue by Voltaire, Dialogue XIV, 1766.

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• Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Decision, Voting, Return

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• Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Men, Cycling

  "Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 16, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

  Bobby Scott

  Education, Mean, College

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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, Jail, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

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• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Growing Up, School, Fire

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• People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

  Michelle Alexander

  People, Vote, States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Jail, African American

  "The mass incarceration of the Black community: an interview with Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow’". Interview with Minister of Information JR Valrey, sfbayview.com. April 4, 2012.

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