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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim…
— Frederick Douglass
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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and…
— John Dickinson
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Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King…
— John Dickinson
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We…
— William Faulkner
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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves…
— Horace
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what…
— Howard Zinn
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If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given…
— William James
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We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
— Mort Sahl
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Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ.…
— John Stott
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We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In…
— Michelle Alexander
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Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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