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In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just…

— Coretta Scott King

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially…

— Noam Chomsky

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown…

— Angela Davis

We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now…

— Jimmy Carter

I think that we need to have an honest conversation in this country. This idea that somehow we're beyond sexism, beyond racism is just…

— Cory Booker

We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass incarceration specifically…

— John Layfield

We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we…

— Will Cain

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront…

— Danny K. Davis

Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's…

— Betsy Hodges

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which…

— Hakeem Jeffries

We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their less better…

— Michael Eric Dyson

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

— Yance Ford