Mass Incarceration Quotes

13 quotes by 5 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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 can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women. — dream hampton
• If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in America—we… — Michelle Alexander
• It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population. — Hillary Clinton
• Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have… — Bryan Stevenson
• Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: Black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black. — Michelle Alexander

Who Wrote These Mass Incarceration Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 13 Mass Incarceration Quotes as follows:

• 9 Mass Incarceration Quotes by Michelle Alexander
• 1 Mass Incarceration Quote by Michael K. Williams
• 1 Mass Incarceration Quote by dream hampton
• 1 Mass Incarceration Quote by Hillary Clinton
• 1 Mass Incarceration Quote by Bryan Stevenson