Capital punishment Quote by Michelle Alexander

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

“We have a system of terrorizing punishment meted out directly to more than two million people in prison and to another five million or…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

“The under-recorded, under-analyzed racial disparities between female victims of lethal police force may be even greater.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The disproportionate imprisonment of people of color was, in part, a product of racial profiling—not a justification”

— Michelle Alexander

“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its implications for…

— Michelle Alexander

“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often…

— James Forman Jr

“The Supreme Court has now closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice process, from stops…

— Michelle Alexander

“The announced function of the police, “to protect and serve the people,” becomes the grotesque caricature of protecting and preserving the interests of our…

— Joy James

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

“But there are no criminals here Just people surviving against all odds Multi and never ending circumstances of racial repression Class war accompanied with…

— Jonathan Daniel Gomez

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under…

— Assata Shakur

“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people in this…

— Bryan Stevenson