Consciousness Quote by James Fox

You don't need to visit a prison to know that racial inequality exists. There's enough talk about it, especially in Silicon Valley, to know…

— Christine Tsai

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

Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent…

— Michelle Alexander

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target…

— Michelle Alexander

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

“[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

I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who…

— Malcolm X

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first,…

— Chelsea Manning