African american Quote by Randall Robinson

One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for…

— Randall Robinson

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but…

— Harry Belafonte

The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our…

— Michelle Alexander

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of…

— Randall Robinson

“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

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to…

— Henry Louis Gates

Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before…

— Michelle Alexander

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one…

— Randall Robinson

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private…

— Clint Smith

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler