Convict Quotes

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov

Faith, May, Him

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
Earl Warren

Life, Thought, Liberty

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Education, Last, Less

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!
Jim DeMint

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.
Duane Chapman

Husband, Father, Son

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
Raquel Welch

Sex, Rather, Symbol

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.
Duane Chapman

Life, Black, Words

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
Felix Frankfurter

Mind, Cannot, Order

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
Johnnie Cochran

Black, Sit, Juries

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
David Simon

America, Far, Seems

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.
Kool Moe Dee

Remember, Against, System

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