Quotes About Prison Industrial Complex

#1. The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Henry Rollins

#2. So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.

Cornel West

#3. Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

Cornel West

#4. The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they're now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.

Barrett Brown

#5. The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.

Eugene Jarecki

#6. If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.

Stefan Molyneux

#7. We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.

Cornel West

#8. Everything hurt but she did not mind.

Audrey Niffenegger

#9. Our dog just wanders around the house with a concerned look on his face. Dogs are just people who can't find their phone.

Dana Gould

#10. The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity's sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside.

Clive Barker

#11. This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".

Angela Y. Davis

#12. What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#13. The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Frances Wright

#14. Poetry is concerned not just with the meaning of experience, but with the experience of meaning.

Terry Eagleton

#15. Dierdre the counselor must not have had much of a life, because she scheduled our next appointment on a Sunday. I wasn't so thrilled about it, seeing as it wasn't just my day off-it was also the day my friends had off. Orders were orders, however, so I grudgingly showed up.

Richelle Mead

#16. It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I'm sorry, to say it's okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then ... and then. Who knew?

Sara Zarr