Felons Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Felons". There are currently 54 quotes in our collection about Felons. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Felons!
The best sayings about Felons that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.

    Men   People   Voting  
    Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso
  • We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.

    "A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow". "Bringing Down the New Jim Crow" with Chris Moore-Backman, www.prx.org. November 15, 2011.
  • Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

    Book   School   Loss  
  • Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.

    Men   Law   Black  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that you wouldn't notice that it had things attached - heavy things, things like pity and need, that were weighty as anchors and iron beams and just as impossible to get out from underneath.

    Anchors   Iron   Needs  
  • For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.

    War   College   Men  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

    Men   Justice   Police  
    Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.163, Da Capo Press
  • Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • [President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete's sake.

    Coffee   Gun   Years  
  • I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

    "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", www.imdb.com. 1998.
  • Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

  • In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities that are the remnants of loss and dispossession in the law. Dogs and people are abundantly present here, even as the legal fictions they are made to inhabit are exposed with acid lucidity. These are hard histories made readable by Dayan's precious acts of writing.

    Dog   Book   Writing  
  • Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes were committed could demand that the convicts' country of origin incarcerate the prisoners for the terms to which they were sentenced.... Foreign felons in U.S. prisons are exacerbating out budget and law enforcement problems.... We will never get countries to take back their prisoners unless we have some leverage. NAFTA gives us that opportunity.

  • A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!

    Cells   Felons   Prison  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.100
  • Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

    Wise   Men   Thieves  
    Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1645, Delphi Classics
  • In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

    Football   Team   Player  
  • Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.

  • We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

    Book   Law   Age  
    "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.
  • Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

    Lying   Doors   Judging  
    Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.145, Manchester University Press
  • I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

    Want   Felons   Idiot  
    Louisa May Alcott (2000). “The Portable Louisa May Alcott”, p.503, Penguin
  • Gator [ McKlusky from White Lightning] was a criminal and a felon, but he had a good heart - he's probably a cousin to Bo. Bo was not a felon and definitely never wanted to hurt anybody - the final scene confirms that. He confesses to Buford T. Justice that he is right behind him. Gator McKlusky would not have done that.

    Cousin   Hurt   Heart  
    Source: www.caranddriver.com
  • Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.

    War   Men   Cycling  
    "Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 16, 2012.
  • I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.

  • If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

    Spider Robinson (1996). “Deathkiller”, Baen Books
  • What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.

    Long   Felons   Action  
    Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press
  • Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

    "The mass incarceration of the Black community: an interview with Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow’". Interview with Minister of Information JR Valrey, sfbayview.com. April 4, 2012.
  • Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

    Cancer   Men   Smoking  
    J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.36, Penguin
  • We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

    War   Mean   Gun  
    "On Gun Control, Jerry Nadler Explains What Congress Could Do Right Now" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.
Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • We hope our collection of Felons quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Felons is constantly growing (today it includes 54 sayings from famous people about Felons), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Felons!