Wilbert Rideau Quotes

• Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Teacher, Real, Educational

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• Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Past, Years, Practice

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• If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.

  Wilbert Rideau

  People, Judging, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Responsibility, Mediocre, Position

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• Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Simple, Redemption, Good And Bad

  "Inside Man". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2010.

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• The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

  Wilbert Rideau

  People, Life Is, I've Learned

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Whatever you want, you can make things happen.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Want, Make Things Happen, Happens

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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