Quotes by : Michelle Alexander

There is no inconsistency whatsoever between the election of Barack Obama to the highest office in the....

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if....

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....

The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that....

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

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....

The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in....