Michelle Alexander Quotes

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

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

What is key to America’s understanding of class is the persistent belief — despite all evidence to t...

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

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

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

Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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