Quotes by : Michelle Alexander

As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed....

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served....

What is key to America’s understanding of class is the persistent belief — despite all evidence to....

We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up....

Because the drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, when drug offenders....

Yet our ability to exercise free will and transcend the most extraordinary obstacles does not make the....

Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crimes....

We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally....

When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think....

The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law....