Best quotes by Michelle Alexander on Life
Checkout quotes by Michelle Alexander on Life
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‟ Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal if you've been labeled a felon.
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‟ If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for life. These men are part of a growing undercaste - not class, caste - a group of people who are permanently relegated, by law, to an inferior second-class status.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ Prosecutors frequently overcharge, load up charges on individual defendants, knowing that three strikes laws and harsh mandatory minimum sentences will force people to plea bargain and essentially convict themselves because they're terrified of doing a life sentence for a relatively minor crime.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ Susan Burton's life story - filled with trauma, struggle, and true heroism - is precisely the kind of story that has the potential to change the way we view our world.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits.
- Michelle Alexander