Color Quote by Angela Davis

Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new, high tech…

— Michelle Alexander

It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure we look…

— David Fizdale

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private…

— Clint Smith

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change.

— Peter Hedges

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

“The impact of the new caste system is most tragically felt among the young. In Chicago (as in other cities across the United States),…

— Michelle Alexander

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown…

— Angela Davis

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out of mind,…

— Michelle Alexander

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system…

— Barack Obama

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue…

— Jesse Jackson