Age Quote by Henry Giroux

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins…

— Michelle Alexander

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks…

— Aldis Hodge

“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit…

— Michelle Alexander

“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of all races.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of…

— Michelle Alexander

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much…

— Howard Zinn

“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was not completely…

— Adolph L. Reed Jr

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could…

— Jon Meacham

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there was no…

— Carol Anderson

Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to…

— Bob Beckel

There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly children, there…

— Henry Giroux