American Quote by Anthony Lewis

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

— Adam Gopnik

We think of our prison inmates as the dregs of society, and we scorn them and push them off to the side and forget…

— Adrienne C. Moore

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

— Chuck Todd

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We…

— Charlie Munger

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

— Howard Zinn

Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for…

— Mary B. Harris

We Americans like to believe we live in a free country with the right to use the justice system to ensure that government abuses…

— Sharyl Attkisson

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

— Bryan Stevenson

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love…

— Bobby Sands

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces…

— Michelle Alexander

What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make…

— Noam Chomsky

The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and…

— Sekou Odinga