Crime Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“the shrewdest and most powerful anti-Black criminals have legalized their criminal activities, have managed to define their crimes of slave trading and enslaving and…

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

“Plunder by force or subterfuge is called theft, larceny, burglary, swindling. Plunder under color of law can take the form of ‘economic regulation’, ‘too…

— Joseph Befumo

“The story would be told many times in American history: Black property legally or illegally seized; the resulting Black destitution blamed on Black inferiority;”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The aggressive enforcement of…

— Michelle Alexander

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves…

— Frederic Bastiat

“When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks and three…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“What this book intended to do - the only thing it is intended to do - is to stimulate a much-needed conversation about the…

— Michelle Alexander

“What started as a struggle for equal rights and a more color-blind society has turned into a major industry--the victim industry. Like the rest…

— Tammy Bruce

Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to…

— Marcus Garvey

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black…

— Ava DuVernay