Acknowledge Quote by Michelle Alexander

Undocumented residents and even green-card holders may fear that filling out the census could put them at risk of deportation and decide its better…

— Alex Wagner

We need to make sure we're making a distinction between violent felons who are in this country illegally and children who were brought here…

— Eric Greitens

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

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt.…

— 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

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

— Nat Hentoff

The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal…

— Susana Martinez

“Once a person is labeled a felon, he or she is ushered into a parallel universe in which discrimination, stigma, and exclusion are perfectly…

— 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

In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so…

— William Barr

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

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

— Julian Assange