Color Quote by Michelle Alexander

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our…

— Dana Goldstein

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

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

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of…

— Adrienne Rich

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and…

— Wilbert Rideau

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

“Prison education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is time to…

— Christopher Zoukis

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

— Chris Crass

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions -…

— Jamaal Bowman

The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap.…

— Barack Obama