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Race Quotes by Michelle Alexander
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast…
- We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view,…
- The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black…
- It was because of race that we didnt care much what happened to those people and imagined the worst possible things about them.
- Slavery ended, but the idea of race lived on.
- The problem that we face as civil rights lawyers and advocates is that its extremely difficult to prove race discrimination because the Supreme Court is…
More Race Quotes
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that… — Margaret Atwood
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to… — Donovan Bailey
- One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! — Robert Ballard