Vote Quotes by Michelle Alexander

11 Vote quotes by Michelle Alexander

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Michelle Alexander’s eleven brief reflections on voting bring her civil‑rights lens to the ballot box. They offer a concise, powerful glimpse into why she believes voting matters for equity.

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People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to…

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In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that…

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In fact, in some countries there are actually voting drives conducted in prison! But here in the U.S., we seem to take…

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Black men in ghetto communities (and many who live in middle class communities) are targeted by the police at early ages, often…

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Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in…

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Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are…

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Voting rights expert and legal scholar Pam Karlan reports that as of 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870,…

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For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated…

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Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial…

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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…

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Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against…

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

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

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

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“[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…

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

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

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

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