Access Quote by Michelle Alexander

Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing,…

— Michelle Alexander

Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries,…

— Michelle Alexander

People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated…

— Michelle Alexander

Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.…

— Michelle Alexander

Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational…

— Michelle Alexander

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve…

— Michelle Alexander

Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits. You're relegated…

— Michelle Alexander

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before…

— Michelle Alexander

For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than…

— Michelle Alexander

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

— Michelle Alexander

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

Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release, they're ushered…

— Michelle Alexander

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a…

— Michelle Alexander

All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.

— Michelle Alexander

Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in…

— Jefferson Davis