"It was because of race that we didnt……" — Michelle Alexander
"It was because of race that we didnt care much what happened to those people and imagined the worst possible things about them."
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39 Quotes by Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander has 39 quotes on this site.
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we…
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
— David Attenborough
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It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one…
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
— John James Audubon
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you…
— Marcus Aurelius
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and…
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