American Quote by Ari Melber

When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct…

— Michael Ventura

“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions on their…

— David Cay Johnston

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

— Garet Garrett

In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light…

— James Forman, Jr

It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite…

— Jeff Bingaman

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the…

— J Michael Straczynski

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is…

— James Bovard

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

— J. Michael Straczynski

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

— Oliver Ellsworth

... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter…

— Mary B. Harris

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby…

— Glenn Greenwald