Epicurus -


Louis Brandeis -


Henry Middleton -


I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice -

Abraham Lincoln -
The US government will keep locking up black people until white people quit using drugs -

Chuck Beyer -
It is a paradox that the nation that did so much to articulate and codify human rights in its foundation consistenly resisted the effective functioning of an

internationa framework to protect these principles and values - Amnesty International -
No other democratic country in the world denies as many people - in absolute or proportional terms - the right to vote because of felony convictions as the

United States - Human Rights Watch -
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong--- There are good laws and there are bad laws. and it conforms to the

highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them - Alexander Bickel -
The militarization of law enforcement has created the equivalent of a standing army, engaged against the American people - precisely what was feared by

the framers - David Kopel -
In absolute terms, the United States currently has the largest inmate polulation in the world, with more than 2 1/2 million or more than one in a hundred

adults in prison and jails. Altough the United States represents less the 5% of the world's population - We are the Least Free Nation