The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.

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.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!

You are not living, you are surviving.

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack.

The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.