“Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.” NeedsProtectCapitalismPrisonCriminals Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” YearsMindMadeSaidSoulEarthBitsClassHonorElementsYears AgoPrisonCriminalsKinshipCommonalityLower ClassYour Honor Author:Eugene V. Debs
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” SoulCultureClassElementsDiversitySocial JusticePrisonEqualityCriminalsProtestBrotherhoodSocialistDisobedienceBeing DifferentKinshipCommonalityLower Class Author:Eugene V. Debs
“The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.” CharacterWallGunPrisonSurroundCaptivityTrue Character Author:Eugene V. Debs
“If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.” PeopleIfsMenHumansMightCitiesCrimeAccountsTownsInstitutionsPrisonEquipmentEquations Author:Eugene V. Debs
“A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.” HumansCrossesPrisonSectionsStrain Author:Eugene V. Debs
“In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.” IfsMenDoeProgressMen And WomenInstitutionsPrisonImprovementCoveredUnfortunateRehabilitationErringProgress Of SocietyReclamation Author:Eugene V. Debs
“The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.” ShouldHumansInstitutionsPrison Author:Eugene V. Debs
“The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.” PeopleKnowsLittlesConcernedPrisonTreatedPrisonerGeneral Public Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it necessary for a man to steal in order to live.” MenBelieveOrderPrisonStealing Author:Eugene V. Debs
