Eric A. Luttrell

“If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch.”
― michelle Alexander

“I don’t really understand what politics are … I’m concerned with injustice … I’m not attuned to politics, I’m just attuned to people.’ He”
― Peter Doggett, There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s

“The exact identity of those oppressed souls was a matter of subjective opinion. Feminists sought the liberation of women from male dominance and aggression. African-Americans wanted an end to racism and, in many cases, the establishment of their own exclusive homeland. Students in Paris and New York fantasised about the overthrow of the restrictive educational system that, in their view, smothered free thought and expression. Committed Marxists required nothing less than the toppling of global capitalism, and thereafter an end to imperialism. Africans dreamed of the day when their colonial masters were banished from the continent. And across the world, all these forces were united in the campaign to end the Vietnam War, and exile America’s soldiers and ‘advisers’ from South-East Asia.”
― Peter Doggett, There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s

“Back there, before Jim Crow, before the invention of the Negro or the white man or the words and concepts to describe them, the Colonial population consisted largely of a great mass of white and black bondsmen, who occupied roughly the same economic category and were treated with equal contempt by the lords of the plantations and legislatures. Curiously unconcerned about their color, these people worked together and relaxed together.3 —Lerone Bennett Jr.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness