Abolitionist Quote by Ava DuVernay

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs.…

— Randall Robinson

I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of…

— Joan Halifax

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

— Malcolm X

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison…

— Michelle Alexander

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance,…

— Margaret Atwood

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

— Serj Tankian

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment…

— Bill Johnson

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which…

— Victor Hugo

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

— Iggy Pop

Some of the folks we see are in for defending themselves against their abusers, or drug charges that, because of the California state prison…

— Thao Nguyen