Offenders Quotes - Page 4

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

  John Dingell

  Law, Doe, Nuclear

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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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• Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half of the inmates are violent offenders. This system is about protecting the public from violent crime." This type of statement is highly misleading.

  Michelle Alexander

  Trying, Looks, Half

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged from the body politic - and who is not. Drunk drivers are predominately white and male.

  Michelle Alexander

  White, Drunk, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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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• Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.

  Trevor Noah

  Opportunity, Quality, Redeeming Qualities

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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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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• 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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• In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

  John Locke

  Law, Common, Reason

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.279, CUP Archive

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

  Voltaire

  Torment, Greater, Conscience

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• Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Couple, Powerful, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting their lives destroyed by going to prison. We need to look at mandatory minimum sentencing and give judges more flexibility when there are issues of drug abuse or addiction.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

  John Ashcroft

  Ideas, Waiting, Helping

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• Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

  Clarence Darrow

  Punishment, Free Will, Select

  "The Story of My Life".

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• It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

  Bill Schuette

  Cop, Violent, Beats

  "Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General, Calls For 1,000 More Police Officers". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Detached forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, but no reconciliation takes place. Limited forgiveness—there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is partially restored, though there is a decrease in the emotional intensity of the relationship. Full forgiveness—there is a total cessation of negative feelings toward the offender, and the relationship is fully restored.

  R. T. Kendall

  Emotional, Feelings, Negative

  R.T. Kendall (2010). “Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside”, p.10, Charisma Media

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• I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

  Rick Mercer

  Opportunity, Thinking, Equal

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• It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
  not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Christian, Order

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “The law of love and the law of violence”

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• There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Country, Sex, Criminals

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• Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Years, Cities

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.150, The New Press

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