Race And Incarceration Quotes

#1. The vice-presidency isnt worth a bucket of warm piss,

John Nance Garner

#2. Patriotism is the highest form of love

Thabiso Monkoe

#3. We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#4. You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

Paul Keating

#5. My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

William Kamkwamba

#6. I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits.

Kim Fields

#7. It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

James Baldwin

#8. So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.

Roald Dahl

#9. After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

Arthur Smith

#10. I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

Dolly Parton

#11. If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you. It does it often enough anyway even when you don't give it opportunities.

Robert M. Pirsig

#12. Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.

Richard Zimler

#13. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate. The New Jim Crow was born.

Michelle Alexander

#14. I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.

Paul Beatty

#15. I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

Felicity Jones

#16. Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Dorothy Day

#17. I need you, Anastasia," he whispers.
"I need you, too." And as I say the words, I am struck how true they are. I cannot imagine being without Christian, ever.
"Let me love you." he says hoarsely.
"Yes," I answer.

E.L. James

#18. Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

Michelle Alexander