Human rights Quotes by Michelle Alexander

If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that…

— Michelle Alexander

The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and Latinos as…

— Michelle Alexander

“Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem. The fact that the meaning of race…

— Michelle Alexander

Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then…

— Michelle Alexander

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were under Jim Crow…These figures…

— Michelle Alexander

“That was King’s dream—a society that is capable of seeing each of us, as we are, with love. That is a goal worth fighting…

— Michelle Alexander

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who…

— Michelle Alexander

“Civil rights protests were frequently depicted as criminal rather than political in nature, and federal courts were accused of excessive “lenience” toward lawlessness, thereby…

— Michelle Alexander

We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.

— Michelle Alexander

If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of…

— Michelle Alexander

The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to address the…

— Michelle Alexander

“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America…

— Michelle Alexander

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for…

— Michelle Alexander

“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the…

— Michelle Alexander

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are…

— Michelle Alexander