Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redem…

- Wilbert Rideau

Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the …

- Wilbert Rideau

If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a diffe…

- Wilbert Rideau

Whatever you want, you can make things happen.

- Wilbert Rideau

Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They …

- Wilbert Rideau

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good thi…

- Wilbert Rideau

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from …

- Wilbert Rideau