"If we want to do more than just……" — Michelle Alexander
"If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in America—we must lay down our racial bribes, join hands with people of all colors who are not content to wait for change to trickle down, and say to those who would stand in our way: Accept all of us or none."
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Michelle Alexander
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39 Quotes by Michelle Alexander
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were…
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent…
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning…
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that…
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The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and…
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.…
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from…
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves…
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A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that…
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were…
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a…
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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