The New Jim Crow Quotes

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

Michelle Alexander

#2. So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.

Cornel West

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. It wouldn't happen ... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey

Karl Pilkington

#7. 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

#8. The only time I use women in films is when they're naked or dead.

Joel Silver

#9. Self-publishing is easy. It's the stuff that comes before and after that's hard work.

Cindy Hiday

#10. In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yossi Vardi

#11. What would you do, if you could do anything?

Sarah Dessen

#12. 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

#13. We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. I

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.

Joan Silber

#15. She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

Frank Zappa

#16. The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

Paul McCartney

#17. For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

Kim Gordon

#18. There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

John Henry Newman

#19. I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

Catherynne M Valente

#20. We return to you, O earth, the things which you have given us willingly and most graciously; with our hearts, hands and minds, in the best way we know how.

Taj Mahal

#21. Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.

Veronica Roth