Miranda Clemmons

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. Less than two decades after the War on Drugs began, one in seven black men nationally had lost the right to vote, and as many as one in four in those states with the highest African American disenfranchisement rate.33”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“The rhetoric of “law and order” was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“There is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Racial indifference and blindness—even more than overt racial hostility—form the sturdy foundation for all racial caste systems.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness