Quotes About Rikers

#1. If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially or officially, is to pepper spray that individual to sedate them.

Cecily McMillan

#2. I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

Cecily McMillan

#3. I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

Foxy Brown

#4. I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.

Selenis Leyva

#5. Her eyes grew wide and she briefly covered her mouth with her hand.
"Are you a virgin?" she whispered.
"What? No!"
"But when do you find time with that rigid schedule of yours? I mean prisoners at Rikers have more freedom!

Shelly Laurenston

#6. Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.

Eric Schneiderman

#7. I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.

Cecily McMillan

#8. Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

Gary Goldstein

#9. I'm a big country fan.

Shannon Elizabeth

#10. I'm not against trade ... but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations ... They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker.

Keith Ellison

#11. My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Simon Van Der Meer

#12. The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

George R R Martin

#13. I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.

Barry Hannah

#14. Because of my value, I veil myself ... If I show too much, I wouldn't be revealing my true worth to you. I'd be distracting you from what matters most.

Jason Evert

#15. Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to.

William Faulkner

#17. His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.

William Gibson