Black Quote by Clint Smith

Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new, high tech…

— Michelle Alexander

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

— Angela Davis

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but…

— Harry Belafonte

Prisoners do matter when analyzing the severity of racial inequality in the U.S. Yet because they are out of sight and out of mind,…

— Michelle Alexander

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change.

— Peter Hedges

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,…

— Bryan Stevenson

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an…

— Randall Robinson

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

— Terry McMillan

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people…

— Anna Deavere Smith

“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching a postwar…

— Michael Hardt