Racial Caste Quotes
- ...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- 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
- 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… — Michelle Alexander
- We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it — Michelle Alexander
- 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… — 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
- 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