Prison Reform Quotes:

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

- C. S. Lewis

source: James Freeman Clarke (1871). “Go up higher; or, Religion in common life (sermons).”, p.28

topic: Art, Thinking, Justice, Tuberculosis, Prison Reform

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

- Henry Louis Gates

topic: Thinking, Justice, Rotten, Prison Reform, Prison System

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Moving, Men, Effort, Melodrama, Faust

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Yesterday, President, Reform, Prison Reform, Congressman

I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.

- Ava DuVernay

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Past, Impact, Talking, Prison Reform

There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.

- Patricia Arquette

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Impact, California, America, Prison Reform

The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don't have a personal interest in. It's because I don't trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.

- Rachel Maddow

source: "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

topic: Average, Issues, Interesting, Personal Interest, Prison Reform