Quotes with jails

  • Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

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  • Billy Sunday At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Angela Davis Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Horace Mann Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Nelson Mandela No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
    Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Barbara Deming Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Hubert Humphrey There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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