Jean-Lambert Tallien Quotes

Bad people should be incarcerated.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

I should still be in jail.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Going to prison, for me, was like seeing my death before it happened.

I'm an equal opportunity incarcerator.

To back away from France would be to undermine the cause of republicanism in America

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.

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol…

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Emotions run high in war and we put a lot of people in prison who did no more than you or I.