Incarceration Quotes

37 quotes by 28 authors

The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during… — Annie Besant
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison… — Michelle Alexander
My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe… — Foxy Brown
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In… — John Pilger
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by… — Peter Kropotkin
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.… — Thomas Sowell
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment… — Matt Gonzalez
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and… — Ben Kingsley
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in… — Michelle Alexander
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the… — Michelle Alexander
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass… — Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs — Michelle Alexander
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles… — Jeff Cooper
From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who… — Rachel Held Evans
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration. — Barry McCaffrey
During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home… — Charlie Chaplin
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass… — Michael K. Williams
Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time. — Michelle Alexander
We canâ€™t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women. — dream hampton

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