Michelle Alexander

Quotes

• “What a growing number of sociologists have found ought to be common sense: by locking millions of people out of the main...”
• “Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crimes were enforced vig...”
• “As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them...”
• “We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created...”