Best quotes by Michelle Alexander on Justice
Checkout quotes by Michelle Alexander on Justice
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‟ The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become by declarations of war, 'get tough' mantras, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for locking up and locking out the poorest and darkest among us.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ In my view, the most important lesson we can learn from Dr. King is not what he said at the March on Washington but what he said and did after the march. In the years following the march, he did not play politics to see what crumbs a fundamentally corrupt system might toss to the beggars for justice.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen.
- Michelle Alexander