Crime Quote by Sun Yung Shin

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Racists confessing to their crimes is not in their self-interest.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'

— Charles Barkley

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction…

— Daniel Quinn

“You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in…

— G.I. Gurdjieff

“In order to make this point, we need to talk about race openly and honestly. We must stop debating crime policy as though it…

— Michelle Alexander

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

“Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.”

— Michelle Alexander

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,…

— Bryan Stevenson

“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis