68 Quotes About Imprisonment

Let us evade the grueling imprisonment of our mental cage and invade the explosive power of love. Only by redirecting lost momentum to positive thinking we can restrengthen the mold of our trust. (“Le ciel c’est l’autre”)

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.

Poverty is so concentrated because it is generational and, research shows, created with relentless intention.

Our society's insistence on limiting help to those who "deserve it," as indicated by their status in the labor market, has a profound impact on the capacity of those living in deep poverty to escape ... we also cannot defend the inhumane debate about who are the deserving versus the undeserving poor.

Some critics will counter that poverty is a choice made by those that are lazy or who lack the desire to change their loves for the better. I agree that poverty is a choice. But that choice is not made by the people who live under its oppressive effects. Rather, the choice is ours. It's the choice of government that represents our priorities and allocates our investments. Its a choice reinforced by the companies we patronize and the organizations we support.

… our fates are profoundly intertwined. We have to take care of one another.

… the criminal justice system affects more than the men whose lives are irrevcocably changed when they encounter the system.

The stigma and lifelong negative bias that results from even a fleeting encounter with the criminal justice system is absolutely life changing.

(his) actions also underscore the limits of symbolic gestures toward social justice that we also often see in the world of philanthropy. We often pay homage to what needs to change and attempt half measures, but we rarely challenge our own complicity in the structural inequities.