The number of African-American males in the criminal justice system continues to grow, and, a new trend toward collusion between civil systems and corporate partners threatens to turn the misery and pain of the poor into exploitative opportunies for profiteers. The U.S. criminal justice system has turned predatory and openly punitive, with increasing and deliberate disregard for any educational, correctional or rehabilitative functions. The whole history of progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning, they want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted. . .