Australia Quote by Yael Stone

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week.…

— John Pilger

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

— Michelle Alexander

I love Australia as a country. But we had a problem where, for whatever reason, President Barack Obama said that they were going to…

— Donald Trump

“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its implications for…

— Michelle Alexander

“Australians are descended from a boatload of English convicts, right? So two hundred years in isolation at the bottom of the planet is plenty…

— Elle Lothlorien

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the…

— John Legend

The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse…

— Michelle Alexander

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure…

— Michelle Alexander

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

“Having described the unprecedented scale of imprisonment in America, we may still ask: is America’s use of imprisonment really a justifiable (and effective) solution…

— David Cay Johnston

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light…

— James Forman, Jr