Bob Saget Quotes

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

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

We think it's OK for us to have the world's largest prison population and for one racial group to be overrepresented therein.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

There is not a single man in prison today who does not claim to be an ardent patriot

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.