"Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice……" — Michelle Alexander

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• The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body,… — Annie Besant
• The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent… — Michelle Alexander
• My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's… — Foxy Brown
• In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a… — John Pilger
• Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which… — Peter Kropotkin
• The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that… — Thomas Sowell
• As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we… — Matt Gonzalez
• That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed:… — Ben Kingsley
• Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning… — Michelle Alexander
• Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that… — Michelle Alexander
• If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves… — Michelle Alexander
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander

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