Core Quote by Michelle Alexander Download Open image “The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.” — Michelle Alexander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Core Mass Men White White man
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much… — Tomochichi Copy Share Image
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and Latinos as… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem. The fact that the meaning of race… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were under Jim Crow…These figures… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“That was King’s dream—a society that is capable of seeing each of us, as we are, with love. That is a goal worth fighting… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Civil rights protests were frequently depicted as criminal rather than political in nature, and federal courts were accused of excessive “lenience” toward lawlessness, thereby… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to address the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core. — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by… — Jean-Louis Barrault Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
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