America Quote by Serj Tankian Download Open image “The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985” — Serj Tankian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare America
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons… — Sally Yates Copy Share Image
Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a prison-building boom the likes of which the world has never seen. In two short decades, between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in our nation's prisons and jails soared from roughly 300,000 to more than 2… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share
“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes in laws and policies, not changes in crime rates. Yet it has been changes in our laws—particularly the dramatic increases in the length of our prison sentences—that have been responsible for the growth of our prison… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share
“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching a postwar… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally… — Serj Tankian Copy Share
“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice. Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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