In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the… — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney.… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot all employed mass imprisonment, each presiding over a process that arrested and incarcerated millions. Such systems are… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration depends for its legitimacy on the widespread belief that all those who appear trapped at the bottom actually chose their… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. So long as large numbers… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that,… — John P. Walters Copy Share Image
“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
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