Crisis Quote by James Forman, Jr Download Open image “While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.” — James Forman, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crisis Incarceration Locally Mass incarceration National
Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up. — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans. Black America's… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Most people that take jobs as police officers are taking them because they're good jobs. Many who go into these jobs are doing it… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Disasters affect every state, and North Carolinians have given our own tax dollars to help neighbors and those in other states in times of… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
