African american Quote by James Forman Jr

“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often…

— James Forman Jr

“only 1 of every 3 young black male high school dropouts was able to obtain any type of employment during the average month in…

— Karl Alexander

“The impact of the new caste system is most tragically felt among the young. In Chicago (as in other cities across the United States),…

— Michelle Alexander

“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

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their…

— Heather Mac Donald

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

— Michelle Alexander

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

Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of…

— Al Sharpton

But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is…

— Michael Eric Dyson