Alternatives Quote by Angela Davis

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

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison.…

— Danny Glover

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much…

— Howard Zinn

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially…

— Noam Chomsky

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

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

— Angela Davis

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

One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where…

— Bernie Sanders

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing…

— Angela Davis

Black people have been working hard for decades.

— Cornel West

“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 a postwar…

— Michael Hardt