Bigs Quote by Michelle Alexander

Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent…

— Michelle Alexander

You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed…

— James Heckman

Every kid in the ghetto dream of being rich, and rich kid wants to be a gangsta.

— MC Hammer

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

— Tracy Morgan

“Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture projection of…

— Tariq Ramadan

Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the…

— Michelle Alexander

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology…

— Thomas Sowell

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that…

— Christopher Lasch

In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination…

— Michelle Alexander

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth…

— Ron Suskind

“And because I had been a hustler, I knew better than all whites knew, and better than nearly all of the black 'leaders' knew,…

— Malcolm X

“Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be on their…

— Michelle Alexander