Black Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. Less…

— Michelle Alexander

In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the…

— Michelle Alexander

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.

— Opal Tometi

Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don't give a damn about you.' They're telling the other party, 'You've got our vote.'…

— Stephen A. Smith

Black men in ghetto communities (and many who live in middle class communities) are targeted by the police at early ages, often before they're…

— 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

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for…

— Michelle Alexander

Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being targeted by…

— Henry Giroux

“We have created a new caste system that forces thousands of people into homelessness, bans them from living with their families and in their…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with…

— Noam Chomsky