Crime Quote by Daniel Quinn

“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

You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley, to know…

— Christine Tsai

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didin't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we didn't have any…

— John (Fire) Lame Deer

When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can…

— James Fox

“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men,we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. We…

— Lame Deer

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure we look…

— David Fizdale

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

“It is fair to say that we have witnessed an evolution in the United States from a racial caste system based entirely on exploitation…

— Michelle Alexander