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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.
It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.
If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'Okay, this is not the move.'
Holding people presumed to be innocent in jail pre-trial simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail extracts huge human and financial costs.
When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is the threat of going to jail. That's what truly changes behavior. That's what changes the calculus as employees and executives decide whether to participate in an illegal scheme.
The murder of Robert Krentz - whose family had been ranching in Arizona since 1907 - by illegal alien drug dealers was the final straw for many Arizonans. But there are dozens and dozens of other citizens of our state who had been murdered by illegal aliens. Currently 95 illegal aliens are in Maricopa County jail for murder.
There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of them are 40 years old, 50 years old, and are still under thick, thick secrecy, and anyone violating this secrecy would be thrown into jail himself.
It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.
Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.
I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating.
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.
To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.
People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.
Here are the facts: In 2007, I led Prince William County in adopting a policy of (1) inquiring into the immigration status of every person arrested for a crime; and (2) implementing the federal 287(g) program, which deputizes County Jail officers to determine the immigration status of every inmate.
I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.
With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.
It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things. It is an outrage that there is an attitude that this is normal. This is not normal. We can't shrug our shoulders and say this is just a 'fact of life' in remote Australia.
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.
I've been to Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney and it's all barbed wire, it's like a big jail.
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.
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