Offenders Quotes - Page 2

• To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep, for their own use, up to 80 percent of the cash, cars, and homes seized from suspected drug offenders. You don't even have to be convicted of a drug offense; if you're just suspected of a drug offense, law enforcement has the right to keep the cash they find on you or in your home, or seize your car if drugs are allegedly found in it or "suspected" of being transported in the vehicle.

  Michelle Alexander

  Home, Agency, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

  Max Anders

  Tasks, Christ, Evangelism

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• If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

  Henry Rollins

  America, People, Perfect

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• Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. All such deviations from normal, proper heterosexual relationships are not merely unnatural but wrong in the sight of God.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Past, Sight, Temptation

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• Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance

  Howard Zehr

  People, Justice, Community

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• Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Government, Opposites

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• The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

  Voltaire

  Torment, Greater, Conscience

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• There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Forgiveness, Embrace, Divine

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• The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

  Aristotle

  Law, Organization, Office

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.273, Collector's Library

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• I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.

  Stewart Lee

  Sex, Children, Sorry

  "Carpet Remnant World". Comedy, 2012.

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• I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

  Charles Rangel

  Second Chance, Citizens, Rehabilitation

  "Advancing the Dream Through Education" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.

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• As President, I will institute a procedure in which all convicted criminals will have this brass ring will be surgically implanted into their foreheads-Americans have a right to know who they can trust. I don't care if you're 5, 6, or 7 years old, if you're a first-time offender, you're gonna go to Purgatory and it's not gonna be fun!

  Bob Backlund

  Fun, Years, President

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• My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.

  Gordon Dalbey

  Forgiveness, Christian, Jesus

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• Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Blessed, Soul

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

  Richard Whately

  Anger, Grieving, Done

  Richard Whately (1858). “Bacon's Essays”, p.563

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• I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

  Rick Nielsen

  Opportunity, Guitar, Equal

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.

  John Dingell

  Law, Doe, Nuclear

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• We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

  Anna C Salter

  Realization, Bears, Threatening

  Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Morning, Sex, White

  Source: content.time.com

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• For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

  Desmond Tutu

  Pain, Going Away, Causes

  Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

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• I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Girl, Sex

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• We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

  Janet Reno

  Years, Community, Want

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• The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

  Sting

  Weed, War, Sacrifice

  "Let’s End the War on Drugs" by Sting, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

  John Locke

  Punishment, Mind, Prison

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.

  Louise Jordan Miln

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Drinking

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