People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

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.

Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large.

Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.