African american Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown…

— Angela Davis

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we…

— John Legend

“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved in 1850,…

— Michelle Alexander

One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where…

— Bernie Sanders

But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within…

— Angela Davis

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Far from fading away, it appears that prisons are here to stay. And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community,…

— Michelle Alexander

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

“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching a postwar…

— Michael Hardt

“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure of our…

— Michelle Alexander