Movement Quotes by Michelle Alexander

13 Movement quotes by Michelle Alexander

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Michelle Alexander’s voice on Movement is distilled into thirteen thoughtful snippets. Though brief, this set captures the core of her reflections, offering a clear entry point for anyone curious about how she frames change and progress.

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Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s,…

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We must muster the courage, we must find the will, we must do what is necessary to build a truly transformative movement…

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I believe that we need to think very seriously, particularly as folks of color and progressives, about building either a new party…

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We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms…

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The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons.…

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The education justice movement and the prison justice movement have been operating separately in many places as though they're in silos. But…

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The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement…

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Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict…

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There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to…

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Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,…

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A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…

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We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge…

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I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't…

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

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

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“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…

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“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…

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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…

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

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