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Michelle Alexander has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance…
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively…
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The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,…
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the…
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A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage…
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and…
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for…
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious…
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I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my…
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to…
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Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of…
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the…
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what…
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest,…
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