Astonishing Quote by Bryan Stevenson

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning…

— Malcolm X

“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved in 1850,…

— Michelle Alexander

“Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different fathers as…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over…

— Bernie Sanders

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

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

The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our…

— Michelle Alexander

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

— Henry Giroux

We don't live in a world that nurtures and cares for Black girls like me. And if the world doesn't care about a Black…

— Cori Bush

“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

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people…

— Anna Deavere Smith