Miranda Clemmons

“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

“Our racially biased system of mass incarceration exploits the fact that all people break the law and make mistakes at various points in their lives and with varying degrees of justification. Screwing up—failing to live by one’s highest ideals and values—is part of what makes us human.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“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

“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