Bases Quote by Grace Lee Boggs

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality…

— Barbara Marciniak

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

— David Lidington

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up…

— Dahlia Lithwick

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

— Angela Davis

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler

We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our ways of…

— Wynton Marsalis

We have lived with violence far too long.

— Adrienne Rich

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

— Hillary Clinton

The regime in too many prisons is one of idleness, and locking up someone from such a background in idleness virtually guarantees re-offending. Instead…

— Ann Widdecombe

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

— Huey Newton

“Provisions for martial law and the institutions to implement a military dictatorship inside the U.S. affect all facets of our society. No persons suffer…

— Mae Brussell