America Quote by Hal Holbrook

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.”

— Mark Twain

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

— Mark Twain

“Mark Twain describes how his friend Ralph Keeler introduced him at the start of a lecture: " 'I don't know anything about this man.…

— Mark Twain

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I…

— Anonymous

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

— Val Kilmer

Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only…

— Thomas Szasz

“(Speaking of epidemics, one of three Native American women will be raped, and on the reservations 88 percent of those rapes are by non-Native…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The Indian makes a good citizen, a good farmer, a good soldier. He is a real American, and all those of us who have…

— William F. Cody

One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes on…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“that the only Indians who went on trial were”

— Katherine Boo

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

— Abraham Polonsky

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

— Michael Eric Dyson