“I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.” MenWayOrderReadingLanguageSocialPlansAmountConstantPrisonMemoirRangeImpressedApostlesSocial OrderTrotsky Author:Dorothy Day
“In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.” MenMotherSocialFailingOffersApproachPrisonCriminalsWalletsSocial Service Author:Warren Farrell
“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.” PeopleSchoolSocialFunctionInstitutionsPrison Author:Michel Foucault
“Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.” MenMayMovingPoetrySocialEffortProducePoetNeededPrisonReformProseNervesPeersMelodramaFaustPrison Reform Author:George Bernard Shaw
“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.” MenWellsChildrenImportantSchoolSocialGrowthChallengesAcceptingRolesViolenceEconomicCenturyCreationSucceedPrisonMalesSpreadExperimentsReformWell BeingWelfareAccomplishmentTrendsStakesConstructionDeclineTolerateReverseFatherhoodTwentieth CenturyEconomic GrowthRecessionsInevitabilityArrestingWelfare ReformSocial RolesFatherlessness Author:David Blankenhorn
“Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.” LooksRealProblemSocialTeacherTeachingCrimePrisonEducationalPrisonerOur FutureYour FutureEducational SystemSocial ProblemsDeterrentDropoutsTruancy Author:Wilbert Rideau