The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander Quotes

#1. After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag - the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

David Levering Lewis

#2. I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.

Caroline Leavitt

#3. Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

Michelle Alexander

#4. The monetary policies of the US will destroy the world.

Marc Faber

#5. The world is not your enemy; you are.

Cheryl Abram

#6. Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.

Ira N. Barin

#7. These reports that are not explained by natural phenomena or exploding outhouses are known as UFO's, which is the official abbreviation for Unidentified Flying Objects. I suppose it could also stand for Uncommonly Fat Orangutans, but in this case it does not.

Cuthbert Soup

#8. You're only as good as your last pass.

Brett Favre

#9. Men are so constituted that they derive their conviction of their own possibilities largely from the estimate formed of them by others. If nothing is expected of a people, that people will find it difficult to contradict that expectation.

Michelle Alexander

#10. 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

#11. There is nothing more powerful against negativity than sustained compassion.

Odille Rault

#12. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

#13. I'm not comfortable in this stadium," I explained, trying to look calm.
"I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we're still having
fun, and Fang still loves you, and you'll still save the world. Okay?

James Patterson

#14. The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit themselves to dismantling this new racial caste system.

Michelle Alexander

#16. Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

Mignon McLaughlin

#17. Love yourself enough to give what matters every chance of working by communicating as well as you possibly can, and trying for as long as you wish.

Jay Woodman