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“Imprisonment, they say, now creates far more crime than it prevents, by ripping apart fragile social networks, destroying families, and creating a permanent class of unemployables.28”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders speaks volumes regarding who is viewed as disposable—someone to be purged from the body politic—and who is not. Drunk”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“As we will see, the crisis in law and order in the United States stems from police work itself rather than from individual cops.”
― Chokehold: Policing Black Men
― Chokehold: Policing Black Men
“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Chronic neglect,” notes the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, “is associated with a wider range of damage than active abuse, but it receives less attention in policy and practice.”[2]”
― The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
― The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
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