Contributing Quote by Bryan Stevenson

“In order to make this point, we need to talk about race openly and honestly. We must stop debating crime policy as though it…

— Michelle Alexander

“What this book intended to do - the only thing it is intended to do - is to stimulate a much-needed conversation about the…

— Michelle Alexander

Even the biggest of criminals don't go through what I or my family went through. A small incident was portrayed in the wrong way…

— S. Sreesanth

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their…

— Heather Mac Donald

“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often…

— James Forman Jr

It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world,…

— Richard LaGravenese

Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime… Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces…

— Michael Wilbon

I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If…

— Harry A. Blackmun

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white…

— Eldridge Cleaver

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race…

— Bill Bennett

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt.…

— Michelle Alexander