Prison Quotes - Page 37

• Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

  James Fox

  Sadness, Feelings, Weakness

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• I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.

  James Fox

  Important, Sixth Sense, Walks

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• Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.

  James Fox

  Meaningful, New York, Believe

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• I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need to put our efforts - if we want to think long-range and invest in the community so that we don't have to, you know, invest in prisons - into making a change, because I know that the library can make a change in a life, because it made a change in mine.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Long, Effort

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Interview with Ruth Behar.

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• Whether I'm feeding the homeless, stopping by a high school to chat with teens, visiting a prison or local jail, I think that the greatest service you can give is yourself. To be able to help someone who is not in a position to help themselves or possibly ever repay you.

  Raheem Devaughn

  School, Thinking, Jail

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, September 9, 2014.

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• I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

  Misha Collins

  People, Feelings, Feeling Pretty

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Important, Gone

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Grandchildren, Night, Illinois

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Also because few people were watching - aside from a healthy amount of incarcerated people, because M2 was offered in a lot of prisons - I was able to ask really long, kind of muso questions, that they loved. We could really geek out and talk about music for long periods of time, and that tape would just keep rolling and rolling.

  Jancee Dunn

  Long, People, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have Hillary Clinton who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who's openly racist. We have a presidential candidate who has deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me because if that was any other person you'd be in prison.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Kids, Presidential, Black

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

  Michel Foucault

  Dark, Littles, Information

  Source: www.critical-theory.com

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• The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, War, Believe

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Drug, Needs

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

  Saadi

  Tree, Wicked, Virtue

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• Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Justice, Unjust

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• I've faced worse things in my life than prison

  CeCe McDonald

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• If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

  James Gray

  Running, Past, Years

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• I have a company where I'm trying to get projects off the ground. Me and my partner Madeleine Sackler, we just shot our first feature in a maximum security prison where about 95% of the cast were incarcerated men. We're editing that and there's a doc going with it.

  Boyd Holbrook

  Men, Editing, Trying

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The Department of Justice has become a de-facto legal arm for Muslim Brotherhood groups. I mean, they are suing towns, they are suing schools, they are suing prisons, really to impose the Shariah.

  Pamela Geller

  Mean, School, Justice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of our democracy.

  Edward Snowden

  Motivation, Government, Years

  "Activists Launch Campaign Urging Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. September 14, 2016.

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• We see the corrupt prison system, we see the corrupt police system, we see the corruption in the government, from the top on down. You know, it's built based on lies. However, the marijuana industry itself, because it was an underground industry, showed us the way we could exist on this planet.

  Tommy Chong

  Lying, Marijuana, Government

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

  Catherine Wilson

  Children, Sacrifice, Animal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivation, Cells, Profit

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Second Chance, Needs, Want

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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