Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Some of the folks we see are in for defending themselves against their abusers, or drug charges that, because of the California… — Thao Nguyen Copy Share Image
I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction. — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people… — Lee Tergesen Copy Share Image
We see the corrupt prison system, we see the corrupt police system, we see the corruption in the government, from the top… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
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