Children Quote by Michelle Alexander

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end…

— Grace Lee Boggs

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

— Gale Sayers

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

— John Ruskin

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

— Chris Crass

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that…

— Daniel Quinn

“In America we build prisons based on third-grade test scores. So, if the test scores in the area are bad we know we need…

— Tuvia Tenenbom

We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them…

— Hillary Clinton

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent…

— Sadiq Khan

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles…

— Kinky Friedman

If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters…

— Barack Obama