America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I don’t want to release the prisoners—I want to lease them. If… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“You undergo your own incarceration. You may witness your demise piece by piece. You may be one kind of fool who never… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration.… — Dominique DuBois Gilliard Copy Share Image
“In the false American imagination, West Virginia is a joke or else it's a charity case; but more than anything it is… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We have to change laws. We have to change our approach to policing and incarceration in general. But we can get the… — Melissa Mark-Viverito Copy Share Image
Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
“One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system—in prison, in jail, on probation,… — michelle alexander Copy Share Image
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think it's critically important that the people who have been most harmed by mass incarceration, by mass deportation, by neoliberalism, by… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My experience and research has led me to the regrettable conclusion that our system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We've been addicted to incarceration as a primary response for decades, whether or not it's a good use of resources, whether or… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
“Today, it is predicted that nationwide one in three black males and one in six Hispanic males will be incarcerated in their… — Dominique DuBois Gilliard Copy Share Image
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison -… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“by the year 2000, the lifetime risk of incarceration for black high school dropouts was ten times higher than it was for… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
We loathe mass incarceration. We loathe police brutality. But most of us have absolutely no idea how to address the critical flaws… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: Black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over… — Yael Stone Copy Share Image
Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
“Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Street life gave you that hustle to grind it out. Fake friends gave you eyes behind your back. Incarceration gave you the… — Gee Linder Copy Share Image
“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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