Jails To Jobs Quotes & Sayings

When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have got to do is invest in education and in jobs, something which I have fought for, rather than more jails and incarceration. — Bernie Sanders

Kage glanced back at him once, saw him move, and then strutted right over to the edge of the cage where I was sitting. As he passed by me, he tapped his fist against his chest once, right over his heart, then looked directly into my eyes just long enough to give me a secret wink that sent shivers down my spine. — Maris Black

Validated learning — Eric Ries

One corner was filled by an elderly flat-top desk; the papers on it were neatly in order. Near it, on its own stand, was a small electric calculator. — Robert A. Heinlein

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind. — M.F. Moonzajer

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution. — Louis Kahn

I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup. — Damien Chazelle

Is the hell we know better than a heaven we don't know? — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

THIS IS A COMPLIMENT?
You're incrediburgable
she said
which is to say
You're a little like incredible
but a lot more like a
hamburger. — Chocolate Waters

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration. — Oren Moverman

If you feel comfortable by shaving your body, then shave your body. I feel comfortable keeping my body ready by shaving. I don't think it's unmanly to shave; I think that if you can get past that, you're fine. — Ryan Sheckler

90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves — Sean Lock

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration. — Bernie Sanders

I think some people don't want to believe in God because it means they have to answer for their actions. — Renee Ryan

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. — Leslie Ludy

I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can't find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you're in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don't want to work, they beat you up and throw you in the hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions. License plates alone would amount to millions. — Assata Shakur

Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration. — Bernie Sanders

Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that. — Mark Durie

The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails. — Van Jones

We can go through anything because Jesus goes before us. — Max De Pree

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look. — Maeve Binchy