We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.

I would fly to the moon with my wings of love so that I could express my lifelong admiration of you.

Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.

The people living darkness has seen a great light

You have to modernise you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.