Important Quote by Michelle Alexander

We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of…

— Michelle Alexander

We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination…

— Michelle Alexander

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

— Michelle Alexander

We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves…

— Dean Spade

I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison…

— Michelle Alexander

“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and…

— Michelle Alexander

“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure of our…

— Michelle Alexander

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting for human…

— Malcolm Jenkins

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we…

— John Legend

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

— Linda Sarsour