America Quote by Henry Rollins

I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the…

— Michelle Alexander

If you don't educate, you will incarcerate.

— Eric Adams

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

— Will Ferrell

“the most important question is not whether the government has the power to incarcerate a person—almost invariably, it does. The proper question is whether…

— Joseph Margulies

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

— Marianne Williamson

“In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.”

— John Grisham

Do not allow one failure to incarcerate all of your goals.

— Lucas Hunter

We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us…

— Michael Botticelli

“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later,…

— Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about…

— John Ensign

“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You end up…

— Michael Eric Dyson