The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history. — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives. — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, "What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South?… — Aaron Bushnell Copy Share Image
Got a New Boy swag & this here for y'all, So they gotta keep it separate like the Jim Crow laws, I'm… — New Boyz Copy Share Image
Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux… — E.W. Jackson 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
When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their… — DeRay Mckesson 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
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
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, we know that racially targeted and racially motivated voter suppression was often blatant. Legislators adapted overtly racist… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
“The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“For the first time in the history of America, New Deal policies made homeownership a real possibility for white families, but black… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Atrocities, including the lynching of more than five hundred Mississippi Negroes—more than any other state—were ennobled as righteous. Lynching went unpunished, murder… — Bruce Watson Copy Share Image
“The black newspaper writers were nearly unanimous in their support for integration, and so were the owners of Negro-league teams, even though… — Jonathan Eig Copy Share Image
“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
“Self-defense is a universal exception to the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence. State failure drives the self-defense doctrine through the imminence requirement.… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The temptation is to insist that black men 'choose' to be criminals; the system does not make them criminals, at least not… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I was raised by people who, like my father, came out of the Jim Crow South because Michigan was the place that… — John E. James Copy Share Image
The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
