Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. — Michelle Alexander 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
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
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
The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I cover my eyes with both hands. I think I'm either going to vomit or cry. At the moment, I can't decide… — Jennifer Salvato Doktorski 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
“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
It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care… — John Legend 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
That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big… — Foxy Brown Copy Share Image
We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African… — Ben H. Winters 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
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave… — Tommy Chong 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
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“...Nekhlúdoff clearly saw that all these people were arrested, locked up, exiled, not really because they transgressed against justice or behaved unlawfully,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time. — Michelle Alexander 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
Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration,… — Kool A.D Copy Share Image
