"The drug war has been waged almost exclusively……" — Michelle Alexander
"The drug war has been waged almost exclusively in ghetto communities, resulting in what I believe is a racial under cast."
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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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More Almost Exclusively Quotes
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one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
— Jean Anouilh
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least…
— Carl Sagan
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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More and more teams are using almost exclusively the draft to build their teams. And that means you have younger…
— Ozzie Newsome
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It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively…
— Alfred Bester
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Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing…
— Fredrik Bajer
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For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying…
— Alexander Alekhine
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As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of…
— Philip K. Jason
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The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the…
— Unknown Author
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order…
— John Foster
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