"The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side."

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If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

— Eugene V. Debs