“What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.” BelieveDoeRealStatesActionPoliticalGunDirectBasesPrisonGood ThingsClubsCoercionPolitical ActionDirect Action Book:Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
“I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for.” PeopleSaidTeachGoodnessElementsGunPrisonCriminalsAlways Believe Author:John Waters
“One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.” ChildrenLittlesPoliticalForceGenerationsGunBuiltFemaleLaborPrisonFortuneSlavePossessionDirtyImmigrantsThugMilitiaChild LaborOld MoneyScabsSlave LaborDirty Money Author:Michael Parenti
“You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.” PeopleGivingLooksKindBookLightMotherNightSonWallFoolColdThousandGunPrisonShipsDesertFlashSailMosesMuzzlePoints Of LightPrison Walls Author:Bruce Dickinson
“My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.” IfsShouldYearsHomeLawGuyThreeHouseBrainMillionsFiveWeekPoetMomOne DayCostGunShotsDatingCourtDollarsPrisonRaisedMy MomDivorceAlcoholBrokeFive YearsTake MeMy SisterFourthMillion DollarsManicBroke UpSchizophrenicDepressiveAntidepressants Author:Christopher Titus
“I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.” YearsFirstsPartyGunPrisonShooting Author:Huey Newton
“Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The steady supply of guns in the U.S. makes an already untenable situation even more dangerous, and all of us must raise our voices, write to Congress, hit the streets in protest, attend budget meetings of local municipalities - all to state our opposition to such criminal procedures and practices for our youth.” WritingMeanBlackSituationDangerousYouthGunPrisonMeetingsInvestmentFinancialProtestSteadyIncarceration Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete's sake.” PeopleKnowsYearsHas BeensLawPoliticalThreeHouseForcePresidentWhiteGunPrisonClintonSevenSakeCoffeeWhite HouseThree YearsDeniedGun ControlBoastFirearmsRight To Bear ArmsFundraisingPresident ClintonBradyFelons Author:Charlton Heston
“I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.” IfsThinkingWantShouldCareGunPrisonSorryDon't CareI Don't CareGun ControlHuntsGun RightsPro GunFounding Fathers GunSaying SorryAnti Gun Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.” CarGunHarderAgreePrisonCriminalsFasterFloridaStolenAvailabilityInmates Author:Thomas Sowell