Mary B. Harris Quotes
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.
Harris, Mary B. I Knew Them in Prison. The Viking Press, 1936.
The problem of the person who economically profits from the crimes of others has been with America for many years as this quotation shows. I later example was when in 2011, almost all of the large banks hired people as Vice Presidents and those people in turn falsified information and legal documents in mortgage foreclosures. The higher up bank executives who profited from this illegal activity were never prosecuted by the Obama administration. Similarly, the consumer frauds of securities sales representatives, made fortunes for the stock broker partners who almost always were never criminally prosecuted even though almost all their sales personnel were telling prospective customers the same fraudulent information.
