#prisons

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! ↗

— James Connolly

#destroy #evoke #force #graves #imprison

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. ↗

— Burt Reynolds

#kind #leave #movies #nobody #prisons

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#crime #cross #gallows #hospitals #illness

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#christianity #christians #devout #devouts #goodness

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ↗

— William Blake

#brothels #built #law #prisons #religion

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents ↗

— Angela Y. Davis

#people-of-color #prisons #economy

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#another #bill #billions #build #congress

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. ↗

— Richard Wright

#copied #hearts #men #prisons #realities

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#others #our #prisons #their #thoughts

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#camps #come #concentration #go #latino