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
“The main problem for women trying to emulate male sexuality is that as a ruling-class sexuality, it is constructed around the fact… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“Merely reducing prison terms does not have a major impact on the majority of people in the system. It is the badge… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will… — Edwin Hodge Copy Share Image
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“In the wake of 1984’s pummeling the Michigan Democratic Party commissioned Stanley Greenberg, then a political scientist and later a preeminent Democratic… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“As historian Lerone Bennett Jr. eloquently reminds us, 'A nation is a choice.' We could choose to be a nation that extends… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status. — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status.… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up and locked out… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“When our mother is seen only as the one-dimensional Mary of modern times, instead of the great dual force of life and… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters.… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
Public housing officials are free to discriminate against you on the basis of criminal records, including arrest records. And so, you know,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Now, this is where I differ with everybody on… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
