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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…
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance…
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively…
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The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,…
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the…
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A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage…
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
— John Adams
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
— Norman O. Brown
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He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.
— Wes Fesler
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Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.
— Erich Fromm
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the…
— Lysander Spooner
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…
— Lester R. Brown
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Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe.…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating…
— Orson Scott Card
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Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
— Jerry Falwell
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
— Stephen Covey
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