Quotes by : Michelle Alexander

What a growing number of sociologists have found ought to be common sense: by locking millions of people....

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

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