Jim Crow Quotes

38 quotes by 28 authors

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in… — Ray Stannard Baker
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to… — Sidney Blumenthal
More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of… — Michelle Alexander
I donâ€™t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and… — Barack Obama
I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws. — Ron Paul
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do… — Lani Guinier
The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in… — Condoleezza Rice
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination… — Rand Paul
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. — Myrlie Evers-Williams
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive — Lou Brock
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness… — Melvin B. Tolson
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
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander
Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are… — Michelle Alexander
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity,… — Michelle Alexander
That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite… — Edwin Meese
The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and… — Paul Robeson
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition,… — Barack Obama

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