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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. -- Conrad Black
We have developed our own approach towards rehabilitating people, involving psychological rehabilitation, social rehab within families and of our Religious Rehabilitation Group. -- Tony Tan
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. -- Steve Earle
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. -- Ron Kind
There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips. -- Jane Byrne
Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health. -- Tom Drury
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons. -- Mike Royko
America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life. -- John Olver
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. -- Rudolf Arnheim
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal. -- Theodor Herzl
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell. -- Lee Tergesen
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. -- Alexander Graham Bell
Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. -- Carlos Castaneda
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. -- W. Clement Stone
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. -- Malcolm X
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. -- John M. McHugh
Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person. -- Sandra Bullock
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. -- Benjamin Disraeli
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. -- Thomas Jefferson
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe. -- Whitney Houston
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. -- Charles Rangel
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. -- Calvin Coolidge
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 B. Rangel
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy. -- John Jay Hooker
The lack of manpower and infrastructural capacity in our Intermediate and Long-term Care sectors are problems that have been with us for the past 10 years. The demand for rehabilitation services will only increase with a rapidly ageing population. I hope the Ministry will share its roadmap to meet the rising demand for rehabilitation services. -- Low Thia Khiang
One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey. -- Peter Hobson
I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine. -- Miguel Nicolelis
I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation. -- Mark Salling
Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. -- Charles Rangel
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 B. Rangel
I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat. -- Willie Smits
I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time. -- David K. E. Bruce
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K. -- Bear Grylls
The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation. -- Chuck Todd
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration. -- Frank Wolf
I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money. -- Eric Holder
Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres. -- Steven Morrissey
Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up. -- Jonathan Aitken
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul. -- Vaclav Havel
I would like to own a dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process. -- Michael Vick
I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration. -- Jean Dubuffet
There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated. -- Andrew Solomon
It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation. -- Chico Xavier
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. -- Charles Wagner
The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health... -- L. Ron Hubbard
I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do. -- Beyonce Knowles

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