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Racial 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…
- The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.
- 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…
- 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…
- No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black…
- We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it
- 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…
- My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did…
- 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,…
- Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.
- 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…
- 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…
- The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to…
- 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…
- The drug war has been waged almost exclusively in ghetto communities, resulting in what I believe is a racial under cast.
More Racial Quotes
- Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to… — Jan Brewer
- Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying… — Jerry Brown
- Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. — Charlotte Bunch
- If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell
- I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. — Jimmy Carter
- I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people… — Dave Chappelle
- ...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival. — Dalai Lama
- Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for… — Adolf Hitler
- Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. — Barack Obama
- Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality — Barack Obama
- My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination. — John Oliver Killens