American people Quote by Tom Harkin

“One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US…

— Jarod Kintz

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces…

— Michelle Alexander

“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

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

— Mohsin Hamid

We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing, people always…

— Rush Limbaugh

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners…

— Dick Durbin

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

— Eric Holder

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is…

— James Bovard

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

— Angela Davis

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

— Angela Davis