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System 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- ... 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…
- The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with…
- The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic that would continue…
More System Quotes
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- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character… — Joe Baca
- Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. — Michele Bachmann
- A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — Michele Bachmann
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- 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
- I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball
- I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the… — Antonio Banderas
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where… — Henry Adams