Black community Quote by David Steward

Redemption and rehabilitation for formerly incarcerated individuals is best achieved when they are able to reintegrate back into the community as productive members.

— Alex Padilla

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as…

— Heather Mac Donald

I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I began a…

— Susan Rosenberg

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated…

— Michelle Obama

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

Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need…

— J. B. Pritzker

One thing I can say as far as people from black communities dealing with trauma or PTSD is putting some trauma centers or some…

— Polo G

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black…

— Ava DuVernay

Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin'…

— Kevin Young

“[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

When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love our neighbor…

— Shane Claiborne

The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

— Dorothy Height