Access Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no…

— Michelle Alexander

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

Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new, high tech…

— Michelle Alexander

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

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

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an…

— Jimmy Carter

“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

Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change.

— Peter Hedges

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine…

— Henry Louis Gates

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

— Angela Davis

It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people…

— Barack Obama