Carceral System Quotes & Sayings

If I gaze at my beloved
she may feel embarrassed
and if I do not,
she will feel neglected.
I can see the stars reflecting
in the calm water of her face
but if I look away
I lose my clarity. — Rumi

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. — Chen-Ning Yang

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel

Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they are rich and guilty than if they are poor and innocent. A system that denies the poor the legal help they need, that makes wealth and status more important than culpability, must be changed. Walter's case taught me that fear and anger are a threat to justice; they can infect a community, a state, or a nation and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. — Bryan Stevenson

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long. — Samuel Gompers

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do. — Richard Pryor

Bud Light ... the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job. — Jeff Barrett

It turns out that all the "magic" of cognition depends, just as life itself does, on cycles within cycles of recurrent, "re-entrant," reflexive information-transformation processes — Daniel C. Dennett

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week. — Matt Barr

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty. — Thomas Paine

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse. — John Galsworthy

However, it still seriously pisses me off that we live in a world where you can't be free to express yourself in whatever strange way you happen to choose. — L. H. Cosway

Lost indeed are those who kill their own children out of folly, with no basis in knowledge, forbidding what God has provided for them... — Anonymous