Being Quote by Marlon James

That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy,…

— Michelle Alexander

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

— Hillary Clinton

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in…

— Malik Bendjelloul

“As this suggests, Jamaica was at once brutally divided by racial difference and violence, and in some respects also a cosmopolitan, even tolerant environment.”

— Linda Colley

We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement”

— Michelle Alexander

Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to…

— Marcus Garvey

“CONFESSIONS OF A GANGSTER A former gang member talks about racial violence from way back in the eighties. “It started out innocently,” Jones, 39,…

— Colin Flaherty

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“Mass incarceration depends for its legitimacy on the widespread belief that all those who appear trapped at the bottom actually chose their fate…if the…

— Michelle Alexander

“resisting Africans were nearly always cast as violent criminals, not people reacting to enslavers’ regular brutality, or pressing for the most basic human desire:…

— Ibram X. Kendi