Chance Quote by David Fizdale

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

— Angela Davis

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

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the…

— Jimmy Carter

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction…

— Daniel Quinn

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private…

— Clint Smith

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor…

— Don Cheadle