“Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.” PeopleWorldStatesTodayUnitedMillionsUnited StatesDemocracyTenHighestPrisonSevenRatePopulationLocksPrison Population Book:Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
“We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.” WorldCountryHomeRealityFatherPoliticsJusticeDemocracyLandPolicyHighestEthicsConstitutionBraveRateFree SpeechIncarcerationLand Of The Free Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.” TurnsGrowsHalfLibertyDemocracyProduceTheoryBirthMassUniversalEncouragementSlaveryRateWitSecureAssuranceDeliberateSuffrageIgnobleUniversal SuffrageBirth RatePopular Education Author:H. L. Mencken