Black Quote by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

“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

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

“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure of our…

— Michelle Alexander

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

Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be…

— Michelle Alexander

“Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system in "disappearing"…

— Michelle Alexander

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we…

— John Legend

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

— Yance Ford

It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are…

— Hillary Clinton

“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its implications for…

— Michelle Alexander

We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass incarceration specifically…

— John Layfield

“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved in 1850,…

— Michelle Alexander