A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: wonder knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We teach people how to treat us. If you don’t settle for anything less than respect, that’s what you’ll get. But if you let the douchebags walk all over you and treat you like you’re disposable, then that’s what you’ll always get. —Kristen Proby in Play With Me More about this quote Tags: relationships respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. —Robert Brault More about this quote Tags: recognition acknowledgment anonymity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. —Lewis B. Smedes More about this quote Tags: forgiveness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison. —Nelson Mandela More about this quote Tags: freedom prison hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Characteristically, it is when a man is at the end of his strength and endurance, but nevertheless holds on, that the transforming symbol floats into consciousness. —P.W. Martin More about this quote Tags: strength transformation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. —Howard Zinn More about this quote Tags: humanity prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for twenty-five years, he was released in 1990, and he hasn’t reoffended. I think he’s going straight, which shows you prison does work. —Ricky Gervais More about this quote Tags: prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world. —Michelle Alexander More about this quote Tags: justice politics crime USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they’ve got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates. —Josephine Lawrence More about this quote Tags: hatred racism race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Given the ethnic and racial hierarchies of American life, there are those who dish it out and those who have to take it. Some get to dish it out without ever having to take it, some take it from those above and dish it out to those below, and some find themselves in the position of always having to take it. Such a position is, psychologically and emotionally speaking, almost unbearable. Rage and despair accumulate with no place to go. —Elizabeth Stone More about this quote Tags: justice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: politics crime leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The civil-rights generation feels like this younger generation has no drive, is suicidal, especially black males. But think about this generation coming up with almost no jobs, access to firearms, thanks to the nra, and no hope. Imagine people saying you’ll never get the kind of jobs our parents had, and by the way, here’s some malt liquor and crack cocaine. —Robin D.G. Kelley More about this quote Tags: cocaine black america Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For many black youths prison replaces the family as a primary source of socialization. —Joe Johnson More about this quote Tags: prison black experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email