“For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.” MenCountryAgeCommonPracticeReadyLaborTradeIllnessDecentCivilizedIdleAbsurdityAssuranceIndustrious Author:H. L. Mencken
“We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.” WorldWayLooksMadeCountryReasonProblemCertainChoicesCommunityDealsPovertySeriousIllnessDeeperMental IllnessDestroyingIncarceration Author:John Legend
“An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.” CountryVisionJourneyIllnessRemove Author:Sholem Asch