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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 the margins of…
- 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…
- Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade…
- Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs
- The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice…
- 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,…
- All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our…
- 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…
- There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the…
- ... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle