“The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them but do not make them any more than a prisoner makes a prison.”

1960s, The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement (1967)

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American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968

Kevin Rashid Johnson (1971) American prisoner and social activist

"Razor Wire Plantations" (2014)

“More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in.”

Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes

Part 2, Ch. 21
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

“I'm quite hardcore on this. I think every psychic and medium in this country belongs in prison. Even the ones demented enough to believe in what they're doing. In fact, especially them. Give them windowless cells and make them crap in buckets.”

Charlie Brooker (1971) journalist, broadcaster and writer from England

Guardian columns

“You know why I am a prisoner—because the laws are so stupid that we prefer to break them than to live by them, although it means life-long imprisonment.”

Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author

“Man on Bridge” p. 87
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“The southern whites would rather have had Negroes who stole, work for them than Negroes who knew, however dimly, the worth of their own humanity. Hence, whites placed a premium upon black deceit; they encouraged irresponsibility; and their rewards were bestowed upon us blacks in the degree that we could make them feel safe and superior.”

Richard Wright book Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

“The massive prison-building project that began in the 1980s created the means of concentrating and managing what the capitalist system had implicitly declared to be a human surplus. In the meantime, elected officials and the dominant media justified the new draconian sentencing practices, sending more and more people to prison in the frenzied drive to build more and more prisons by arguing that this was the only way to make our communities safe from murderers, rapists, and robbers”

Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?

Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)

“…something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Flipped (2001)

“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 ended in the state system. You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans. So there are some positive ways we can work on this.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

“Sadness makes you God's prisoner.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.”

Evelyn Waugh book Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall (1928)

“The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them but do not make them any more than a prisoner makes a prison.”

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