Anders Olsen

“The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
― A.W. Tozer

“More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.7 The mass incarceration of people of color is a big part of the reason that a black child born today is less likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during slavery.8 The absence of black fathers from families across America is not simply a function of laziness, immaturity, or too much time watching Sports Center. Thousands of black men have disappeared into prisons and jails, locked away for drug crimes that are largely ignored when committed by whites.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness