Color Quote by Ava DuVernay

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

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

You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley, to know…

— Christine Tsai

It was a big surprise learning how many women work in men's prisons. There are people with mental health problems, people who have made…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

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

I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive…

— Wilson Cruz

Any increase in surveillance of marginalized communities for the sake of security theater have expanded the cycle of criminalization that queer people - especially…

— Chelsea Manning

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— John D. MacDonald

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

Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They…

— Ilana Mercer

The establishment wants to connect with people who are like them, and I wasn't. I'm a black gay man from a poor working-class family.…

— Roger Ross Williams

“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